Wycliffe is a village on the south bank of the
River Tees in the North East of
England
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, situated a short distance to the east of
Barnard Castle
Barnard Castle (, ) is a market town on the north bank of the River Tees, in County Durham, Northern England. The town is named after and built around a medieval castle ruin. The town's Bowes Museum's has an 18th-century Silver Swan automato ...
.
Wycliffe is in the
civil parish
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of Wycliffe with Thorpe.
It is located within the
historic boundaries of the
North Riding of Yorkshire, but along with the rest of the former
Startforth Rural District it was transferred to
County Durham for
administrative
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and
ceremonial
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The word may be of Etruscan origin, via the Latin '' caerimonia''.
Church and civil (secular ...
purposes on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the
Local Government Act 1972.
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Villages in County Durham
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