The railway closed in and the viaduct fell into a period of disuse and was at one point threatened with demolition. The nearby village of Escomb is home to a complete Anglo-Saxon church. It is believed the church was built between the years and St Andrew's church located in the adjoining village of South Church is the largest church in County Durham [] [] and a Grade I listed building.
The church was built in the thirteenth century and acted as a collegiate church. The town has links with the birth of the railways, with the original route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway passing through West Auckland. Timothy Hackworth , a well-known locomotive builder, built steam locomotives in the neighbouring town of Shildon. Today, Bishop Auckland railway station still provides passenger services, and is located at the end of the Tees Valley line.
Since May it has been re-connected with the Weardale Railway , which provides passenger services up the valley to Stanhope. The town centre had a large railway goods yard until The town has a bus station with a number of bus routes serving the town.
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In the government's Level 2 CVA Contextual Value Added statistic, which measures how much a school improves students between the end of National Curriculum Key Stage 2 and the end of Key Stage 4 , compared with how much other schools in the country improve students with similar circumstances, King James scored At A-Level in , none of the towns sixth form centres average points scores reached the national average of Amongst sixth form centres in the town, St John's performed best with an average score of The average A-Level points score at Queen Elizabeth is Schools in the town serving primary age education are detailed in the table below.
The current Bishop Auckland General Hospital has beds, and since opening in has become a centre specialising in routine surgery.
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The new hospital was a PFI project and was announced by the Labour government in the summer of Bishop Auckland's water and sewerage is managed by Northumbrian Water. The present treatment works replaced old works on the site of the present one and another one closer to the town at Tunstall Reservoir. Although water from Kielder can be pumped into the River Wear , via the Tyne—Tees tunnel, upstream at Frosterley , this water is not abstracted from the river until it reaches Chester-le-Street.
Equally, although water can be pumped from the tunnel into Waskerley Reservoir , which in turn supplies Tunstall Reservoir, Tunstall water treatment works was closed in , when the new Wear Valley works was brought into service. There are no power stations in the town.
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Other denominations are also represented in the town. For example, the Baptist Church is next door to the hospital. Bishop Auckland is famous for its amateur football team, Bishop Auckland F. In return in , Manchester United played a friendly against Bishop Auckland to help raise money when the club was threatened with bankruptcy after a member of a rival team sued over an injury. In Manchester United donated floodlights to Bishop Auckland Football Club, which the club has added to their new ground.
The adjacent village of West Auckland is notable for having been home to the team to win one of the first international footballing competitions, the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy , sometimes referred to as The First World Cup. Its team of local coal miners won the cup in the Easter of and again in , defeating the mighty Juventus in the final. Additionally, football pitches, tennis courts and bowling greens are provided at the Town Recreation Ground and Cockton Hill Recreation Ground.
Henknowle Recreation Ground has a 5 a side pitch and a basketball court.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bishop Auckland shown within County Durham. Escomb village Willington town Spennymoor town Toft Hill village. Bishop Auckland Town Hall.
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List of schools in Durham. King James I Academy. St John's Catholic School. Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College. Bishop Auckland General Hospital. Retrieved 29 August Archived from the original on 14 July Retrieved 7 July Retrieved 29 December Sermons Preached in the Diocese of Durham , Macmillan, p.
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