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Ushaw Moor is an ex-coal mining village three miles west of the Historic City of Durham and a short distance to the South of Bearpark.
Parish registers suggests that the settlement dates to a least the
sixteenth century. The village existed in a largely agricultural state,
with a windmill being its one feature up till the nineteenth century.
Ushaw College is located to the north of the village a Roman Catholic seminary and one of the constituent colleges of the University of Durham. It moved to Ushaw Moor in 1808, on the initiative of Bishop Gibson. It was originally founded at Douai in France in 1568.
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New Photos Added To Historic GalleryNew Photos Added To Historic Gallery Film Made in 1963 by Children from Ushaw Moor Secondary Modern School, slideshow of stills taken from the film. Available on Historical Gallery 7 or directly HERE
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January 12, 2009 at 9:36 pm
"Yesterday I heard someone describe Adolf Hitler as having been mentally ill owing to his intense self identification with Germany. That is an interesting statement but where does it leave Ushaw Moor’s local historians?They to tend to self identify with the locality in which they grew up, sometimes to an intense degree. I prefer to think that they, unlike Hitler, love their geographical and human roots ....."
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January 9, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Pre-War Cricket and Football
There are various references to local cricket on Paul’s two ‘memories’ facilities but none of them, as far as I am aware, have mentioned Broompark Cricket Club; lets’s give it a mention! In late June 1935 Broompark entertained Oakenshaw. The available scorecard details were as follows:
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