Sleightholme

Sleightholme
Sleightholme
	Sleightholme Moor Road
	Sleightholme Location within County Durham
OS grid reference	NY955102
Civil parish	Bowes;
Unitary authority	County Durham;
Ceremonial county	County Durham;
Region	North East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Durham
Fire	County Durham and Darlington
Ambulance	North East
	List of places UK England County Durham 54°29′14″N 2°04′13″W / 54.48724°N 2.07018°W

Sleightholme /ˈsliːtəm/^[1] is a secluded hamlet on a dead end road in County Durham, England. It lies beside Sleightholme Beck, a tributary of the River Greta. The nearest town is Bowes, 4 miles away.

The name, first recorded in 1254, is believed to come from the Old Norse sletta holmr, meaning "flat ground near water".^[1] The place was historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire,^[2] and was transferred to County Durham in 1974.

The Pennine Way passes through Sleightholme. Below the hamlet Sleightholme Beck passes through a narrow valley, known as The Troughs, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Sleightholme", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press
^ National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1868

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[watts-1] Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Sleightholme", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press

[2] National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1868

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