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4. Commondale (1) Scenes around the village
The small village-hamlet of Commondale viewed from the Commondale-Castleton road.
Looking down on Commondale - ex cottages for miners or brick workers in the centre of the picture.
The War Memorial.
A stone trod (or pannier way, packhorse track) enters the village above the war memorial and comes from high above on the moor from the White Cross direction. This would be an ancient medieval trackway.
1 Coronation Cottage? As you walk out up the Kildale/Stokesley road you pass one of the fine houses built of the characteristic Commondale red brick, once made a few hundred metres behind the house at the Cleveland Fire Brick and Pottery Company between 1860 and 1950. Little trace of the great brickworks survives. Its hard to imagine there was a large brickworks operating in Commondale producing the very hard characteristic red bricks but at least some of the houses preserve the output of the brick factory.
More Commondale bricks! The playground of the old schoolhouse is now a well tended and attractive garden and the Crossley Memorial Institute of 1923 is now the village hall.
Ness Terrace, made of Commondale bricks, (also known as Brick Row)?
St Peter's Church Commondale
Commondale Station on the Esk Valley Railway.
An Esk Valley Railway train near Commondale Village.
The holiday cottages and farm at Foul Green.
The buttresses of the disused railway
bridge at Commondale, in the left picture, the very much used
railway bridge of the Middlesbrough-Whitby Esk valley Line lies
beyond the disused bridge.
Stone mason marks on the remains of the brickworks bridge.
Its hard for trees to grown on the wild moorland above Commondale village - sheep and the wind blown weather usually prevail!
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