Annfield Plain Cricket Club[6] is situated on the northern edge of the nature reserve, backing onto Greencroft village itself.
The aforementioned Croft Community School[9] then took over the site, with redevelopment work including demolition of the main three-storey block.
The industrial park was believed officially opened in 1993 by former Newcastle United goalkeeper John Burridge during the second of his three periods with the club, though this cannot be confirmed.
The C2C coast-to-coast cycle path, after leaving Consett and Leadgate to the north west, passes through this industrial park and past two further ponds, both of which are local fishing ponds:[11] ...before crossing over a foot and cycle bridge into Annfield Plain past Annfield Plain Park.
The use of the Old Norse word tarn (tjörn)[13] to describe a pond is unusual in County Durham, this entymology being more common in Cumbria, Lancashire and North Yorkshire.
A sculpture called The Heron is situated within Quarzi Tarn on its south side, with urban legend linking it with Angel of the North creator, Anthony Gormley.
East Castle is a small group of houses lying on the A693 to the north west of Greencroft proper, on the way to Leadgate and Consett.
A stream, Newhouse Burn, flows south west away from the lime kilns before eventually joining the River Browney nearer Lanchester.