YHA Baldersdale Youth Hostel
If you’re walking the Pennine Way, you’ll be glad to rest your weary feet at Baldersdale, nestling in a green oasis with open counrtyside all around. The hostel, an old stone farmhouse with adjacent barn, has 10 acres of grounds managed as an environmentally sensitive area where the only sounds you’ll hear are the calls of curlews and lapwings. The friendly small hostel atmosphere will restore your spirits to explore nearby Teesdale and the interactive Killhope mining
museum ...
Baldersdale is a dale, or valley, of the east side of the Pennines in England, north of Barnard Castle. Its principal villages are Hury and Briscoe. Baldersdale is part of County Durham.
The River Balder flows through Baldersdale before reaching Cotherstone where it joins the River Tees. The river flows through three reservoirs on the way: Balderhead Reservoir, Blackton Reservoir and Hury Reservoir. Running roughly parallel to Baldersdale to the north is Lunedale.
A former railway viaduct from the now-closed Barnard Castle to Middleton-in-Teesdale line crosses the River Balder just north of
Cotherstone.
