The Gaunless is a tributary river of the Wear in County Durham, England. Its name is Old Norse, meaning "useless".[1] The Gaunless Viaduct, built in 1825, was the tallest viaduct on the South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway.
Formed just south of the village of Copley, by the confluence of Arn Gill (to the south, coming west from south of Langleydale Common) and Hindon Beck (to the north and coming east from Langleydale Common), the Gaunless wends its way east, passing the settlements of Butterknowle, Cockfield and Evenwood and through West Auckland before skirting the south and east of Bishop Auckland on its way to meet the River Wear.
An extension of the Copley Met.Office weather station has been placed at the head of the river at Copley Lead Mill to study its unique climate of frost and snow. It lies in a frost hollow and receives no sunshine between October and March because of its geography.
^A Potted History of West Auckland - Martin Connolly
The Gaunless is a tributary river of the Wear in County Durham, England. Its name is Old Norse, meaning "useless". The Gaunless Viaduct, built in 1825...
Lancashire Union Railway between Bishop Auckland and Barnard Castle over the RiverGaunless at Lands, also crossing the Haggerleases branch of the railway to Butterknowle...
Gaunless Bridge was a railway bridge on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It was completed in 1823 and is one of the first railway bridges to be constructed...
is a market town and civil parish at the confluence of the River Wear and the RiverGaunless in County Durham, England. It is 12 miles (19 km) northwest...
Haggerleases branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway over the RiverGaunless near Cockfield, County Durham with a skew angle of 63° and a skew span...
building. Auckland Castle occupies an area of flat ground between the RiverGaunless and River Wear, south of their confluence. The town of Bishop Auckland abuts...
Stephenson designed an iron truss bridge to cross the RiverGaunless. The Skerne Bridge over the River Skerne was designed by the Durham architect Ignatius...
Beck River Tees River Leven River Skerne River Greta River Balder River Lune River Wear River Browney River Deerness RiverGaunlessRiver Tyne River South...
controlled the descent of wagons that ran from the colliery to the RiverGaunless. Horses then pulled the wagons to the foot of the Brusselton Incline...
Alclet's river—the Gaunless—means "useless" in Old Norse; or a nearby river may have had the name "Clyde"—history does not record the name of the river Gaunless...
controlled the descent of wagons that ran from the colliery to the RiverGaunless. Horses then pulled the wagons to the foot of the Brusselton Incline...
Haggerleases branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, crossing the RiverGaunless at Cockfield. It is important as an early example of the masonry arch...
Skerne River, and it was originally intended that George Stephenson should erect a stone and iron bridge. However, when the similar Gaunless Bridge he...
2,454 feet (748 m) O.D. at Burnhope Seat) and heather grouse moors. The River Wear flows through Weardale before reaching Bishop Auckland and then Durham...
1888 Stone arch Gasworks Bridge Oxford now a footbridge across the River Thames Gaunless Bridge West Auckland, County Durham 20 1823 Truss first lenticular...
estate, running from junction near North Road station and following the River Tees to Barnard Castle. An application in 1852 failed, but the 15+1⁄4-mile...
Lenticular trusses, patented in 1878 by William Douglas (although the Gaunless Bridge of 1823 was the first of the type), have the top and bottom chords...
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