North Park and Cemetry

North Park in Darlington, located near High Northgate/North Road, a green space that was transformed from a collection of "workmen's gardens" into a public recreation area around 1903–1910. The park which is approx 9.5 Ha features a bandstand, playground, and multi-use areas. Having historically served the nearby industrial areas of North Road. 

The park was established around 1903, featuring a "light iron rail fence" and the planting of 10,000 shrubs and trees. The park includes a bandstand, children’s playground, and picnic tables. A bowling green was added in 1903, with a dedicated bowls house built in 1934. It is distinct from North Lodge Park, another park in the vicinity.

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North Cemetery, which lies between North Road and Thompson Street West in Darlington, is at the heart of the industrial heritage of the town. It is the final resting place of many of the iron and railway workers who put Darlington on the industrial map in the nineteenth century. The cemetery layout over 7.33 Ha consists of two chapels and two lodges designed by GG Hoskins, one of the leading architects of the town, whose grave is in West Cemetery. It was built by Robert Borrowdale in 1874, funded initially by the Quaker Pease family, to whom there is an ornate gothic memorial in the centre of the cemetery.

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More information about the cemetery can be found http://www.aboutdarlington.co.uk/north-cemetery/