Sedgefield
Sedgefield is a town and civil parish in County Durham, England. It had a population of 5,211 as at the 2011 census.A Roman 'ladder settlement' was discovered by Channel Four's Time Team programme in 2003, in fields just to the west of Sedgefield. It consisted of rows of crofts and workshops on either side of a north-south trackway, which could be securely dated by the many finds of Roman coins. St Edmund's church in Sedgefield is noted for its elaborate... Show more 17th-century woodwork installed by John Cosin, bishop of Durham.The 18th century saw the architect James Paine commissioned by John Burdon in 1754 to design and construct a Palladian estate at nearby Hardwick Hall. The building work was never completed as Burdon went bankrupt, but sufficient landscaping was done to form the basis of the now renovated Hardwick Hall Country Park. The 19th-century South African politician and industrialist Henry...