The gateway to Weardale is Bishop Auckland, Durham.
Bishop Auckland, also known as the gateway to Weardale, is a busy request city and civil church that stands on the banks of the flume Wear, in the county of Durham, in the north east of England. The city has a rich history associated with the bishops of Durham and was a coal mining city until the intermediate part of the twentieth century when there was a decline in the assiduousness. It's home to the Auckland Castle, also known locally as the bishop's palace and multifold other edifices that are the remnants of early Christian edifice and have some quantity of hard import. As the name suggests the metropolis's history is linked to that of the Bishops of Durham. The metropolis was originally disadvantaged to the Bishop of Durham as a Borough by the King. The Auckland Castle that's set in the metropolis is the sanctioned pad of the Bishop of Durham. Bishop Auckland was a mining metropolis until new when the sedulity came to a grinding half and all labor intense