Harwood, County Durham

Harwood is a small valley and village near the head of Teesdale.

Harwood Beck is a tributary of the River Tees in County Durham which forms a short valley, and the village is made of the scattered houses and farms which run the length of the valley.

The valley forms part of the North Pennines AONB.

It is in the civil parish of Forest and Frith,[1] and the Bishop Auckland parliamentary constituency.

There is a long history of lead mining in Harwood,[2] which reached a peak in the late nineteenth century when a church (1849) and school (1853) were built.