The Georgian North
The Georgian North is a restored landscape surrounding Pockerley Manor and Waggonway showing the way it may have looked in the 1820s. Ridge and furrow ploughing, riven oak fences, stone walls and hedgerows of the period create a working agricultural landscape to showcase the farming practices and crops of the early 1800s. Durham Shorthorn cattle and Cleveland Bay horses graze in the fields, typical of those animals bred by farming improvers in the region.
Alongside agriculture is a recreation of an 1820s Colliery and a Wooden Waggonway, representative of the technology of the very earliest railways in the region, used to carry coal to the rivers from the expanding collieries. The Horse Gin is a working replica of a small colliery of the late 1700s/early 1800s. The wooden waggonway is based on archaeological evidence excavated locally at Lambton.
The restoration of the Pockerley landscape included planting around 300 metres of new hedgerow in the valley. Other field boundaries were reinstated in traditional dry stone wall or cleft oak fence allowing the project to support local rural crafts and craft practitioners. An accessible footpath has been provided to guide visitors on a circular route through the valley.