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Ireshopeburn (; ''EYE-suup-burn'' ) is a village in the
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
of Stanhope, in
County Durham County Durham, officially simply Durham, is a ceremonial county in North East England.UK General Acts 1997 c. 23Lieutenancies Act 1997 Schedule 1(3). From legislation.gov.uk, retrieved 6 April 2022. The county borders Northumberland and Tyne an ...
, England. It is situated on the south side of
Weardale Weardale is a dale, or valley, on the east side of the Pennines in County Durham, England. Large parts of Weardale fall within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) – the second-largest AONB in England and Wales. The u ...
, between St John's Chapel and
Wearhead Wearhead is a village in the civil parish of Stanhope, County Durham, Stanhope, in County Durham, England. It is situated at the top of Weardale between Cowshill and Ireshopeburn. It is named after the nearby source of the River Wear which runs ...
, and on the other side of the
Wear Wear is the damaging, gradual removal or deformation of material at solid surfaces. Causes of wear can be mechanical (e.g., erosion) or chemical (e.g., corrosion). The study of wear and related processes is referred to as tribology. Wear in ...
from
West Blackdene West Blackdene is a village in the civil parish of Stanhope, in County Durham, England. It is situated to the north of the River Wear The River Wear (, ) in Northern England rises in the Pennines and flows eastwards, mostly through County ...
and New House. In the 2001 census Ireshopeburn had a population of 112. Burnhope Reservoir lies above the village. Ireshopeburn is the site of the High House Chapel, the oldest purpose-built Methodist Chapel in the world to have held continuous weekly services since its foundation in 1760.
John Wesley John Wesley ( ; 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, Christian theology, theologian, and Evangelism, evangelist who was a principal leader of a Christian revival, revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies ...
himself preached at High House on many occasions. Ireshopeburn is the site of the Weardale Museum.


Conservation Area

Three adjacent but historically distinct settlements of Ireshopeburn, Newhouse and the hamlet of West Blackdene were previously covered by two separate conservation area designations but given their shared landscape context and historical links they are being brought together in a unified conservation area in 2011.


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External links


Weardale Museum website
Villages in County Durham Stanhope, County Durham {{Durham-geo-stub