Piercebridge is a Village in the county of County Durham.

Retail in Piercebridge

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

Places near Piercebridge feature a number of interesting waterfalls including Summerhill Force.

Piercebridge has some unmissable towns nearby like Stockton-on-Tees, and Middleton-in-Teesdale.

Hardwick Country Park is a great place to visit close to Piercebridge if you like country parks.

There are a several good airports in the area around Piercebridge like Teesside International Airport.

Piercebridge History

There are some historic monuments around Piercebridge:

• Coniscliffe Road waterworks
• Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary in Low Wood, Langdale
• Roman bridge at Piercebridge
• Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 235m south of Stanwick Hall Reservoir
• St Lawrence's Chapel, manorial settlement remains and dovecote
• Piercebridge Roman fort
• Piercebridge Bridge
• Medieval cross at Barton
• Barforth Bridge
• Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary, 650m ENE of Park House
• Roman fort and prehistoric enclosed settlement 400m west of Carkin Moor Farm
• Manfield shrunken medieval village and associated field system
• Two moated sites, the site of a dovecote and further associated features 120m north west and 180m north of The Old Hall
• Deserted medieval village at Walworth
• Archdeacon Newton moated site, deserted manorial settlement and section of rig and furrow
• Section of Scots Dike linear boundary north of Kirklands Farm
• Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 250m north of Langdale
• Legs Cross
• Deserted medieval village of Ulnaby
• Copper mine and medieval ridge and furrow north, north west and east of St Michael and All Angels Church
• Packhorse bridge across Aldbrough Beck, immediately south west of High Green
• Section of Scots Dike linear boundary north west of High Merrybent
• Smotherlaw round barrow
• Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary east of Langdale Rush
• Round barrow 190m south east of Cliffe Hall
• Round barrow 340m east of Cliffe Hall known as Betty Watson's Hill
• Five Hills round barrow
• Section of Scots Dike linear boundary south of Kirklands Farm
• Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 600m south east of Park House
• Small multivallate hillfort and tower mill on Shackleton Beacon Hill
• Packhorse bridge
• Stanwick Late Iron Age oppidum, Iron Age and medieval settlement, early Christian church and sculpture and post-medieval emparkment
• Remains of the Stockton and Darlington Railway
• Summerhouse moated site and associated drainage channels, enclosure and field system