English Heritage sites near Headland Parish
GISBOROUGH PRIORY
13 miles from Headland Parish
The ruins of an Augustinian priory founded by the Bruce family, afterwards Kings of Scotland. They are dominated by the dramatic skeleton of the 14th-century church's east end.
FINCHALE PRIORY
16 miles from Headland Parish
The very extensive remains of a 13th-century priory, founded on the site of a retired pirate's hermitage. Part of it later served as a holiday retreat for the monks of Durham Cathedral.
HYLTON CASTLE
18 miles from Headland Parish
The distinctive and highly decorative gatehouse-tower of a castle built by the wealthy Sir William Hylton, shortly before 1400. Originally containing four floors of self-contained family.
AUCKLAND CASTLE DEER HOUSE
19 miles from Headland Parish
A charming Gothic Revival 'eyecatcher' built in 1760 in the park of the Bishops of Durham. It provided deer with shelter and food, and had grounds for picnics and rooms for enjoying the view.
PIERCEBRIDGE ROMAN BRIDGE
22 miles from Headland Parish
Stonework foundations, now marooned in a field, of a bridge which once led to Piercebridge Roman Fort.
ST PAUL'S MONASTERY, JARROW
23 miles from Headland Parish
The home of the Venerable Bede, chronicler of the beginnings of English Christianity, Jarrow has become one of the best-understood Anglo-Saxon monastic sites.
Churches in Headland Parish
St Hilda
Church Close
Hartlepool
Durham
http://www.hartlepool-sthilda.org.uk
St Hilda's is a splendid late 12th century church which has recently been re-ordered to provide more flexible worship spaces, performance areas and social / community facilities. These include a Visitor Centre which traces the history of the Hartlepool Headland, where St Hild lived and worked as Abbess before moving to Whitby to found the Abbey there. She died in 680 AD.
Pubs in Headland Parish
Cosmopolitan
Middlegate, Hartlepool Headland, TS24 0HY
(01429) 274347
thecosmopolitanhotel.co.uk
Duke of Cleveland
2 Church Walk, Hartlepool Headland, TS24 0ND
(01429) 280021
thedukeofcleveland.uk
Fishermans Arms
Southgate, Hartlepool Headland, TS24 0JJ
07847 208599
thefishhartlepool.co.uk/
Globe
New Inn
76 Broadfield Road, Hartlepool Headland, TS24 0NT
(01429) 267797
Poppy's Cafe
Heugh Battery Museum, Moor Terrace, Hartlepool Headland, TS24 0PS
(01429) 270746
heughbattery.com
Pot House
Ship Inn
Victoria Arms
154 Northgate, Hartlepool Headland, TS24 0EQ
(01429) 299922
victoria-arms.business.site/