Butterknowle is a Village in the county of County Durham.

Butterknowle postcode: DL13 5PA

Retail in Butterknowle

There are great places to visit near Butterknowle including some great waterfalls, towns, country parks and airports.

Butterknowle is near some unmissable waterfalls like Summerhill Force,

The area around Butterknowle features a number of interesting towns including Stockton-on-Tees, and Middleton-in-Teesdale.

Butterknowle is near some unmissable country parks like Hardwick Country Park,

The area close to Butterknowle boasts some of the best airports including Teesside International Airport.

Butterknowle History

There are some historic monuments around Butterknowle:

• Barnard Castle: ringwork, shell keep castle, chapel and dovecote
• Barnard Castle Bridge
• Deepdale Bridge
• Thorsgill Beck packhorse bridge
• Penny Hill camp
• Whorlton suspension bridge
• Enclosures and industrial workings on Cockfield Fell
• 'The Castles' (camp)
• Carved rock 160m north west of Abbey Farm
• Egglestone Abbey Premonstratensian monastery: inner precinct, monastic enclosures and post-medieval house
• Barforth Bridge
• St Lawrence's Chapel, manorial settlement remains and dovecote
• Carved rock, cist and cairnfield 580m west of Hindon Edge
• Harperley Working Camp, World War II prisoner of war camp at Craigside
• Bradley Hall fortified house and underground passages, moated site, pillow mound and fishponds