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Tindale Crescent

village in County Durham, United Kingdom

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ7808039 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tindale Crescent is a place in County Durham, in England. It is situated immediately to the south-west of Bishop Auckland.

History

In March 1982, Police Detective Constable James Porter was shot in the Tindale Crescent area. A ceremony and memorial plaque to honour him in Tindale Crescent took place in 2022.

Buildings

There is a retail park with a hotel and restaurant.

Editorial summary

“Tindale Crescent” enters the record as village in County Durham, United Kingdom. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tindale, Crescent and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tindale, Crescent and village.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Tindale Crescent” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tindale, Crescent and village provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7808039. Authority coordinates are 54.642, -1.691. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982 and 2022.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Tindale Crescent”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tindale Crescent primary sources, Tindale Crescent archive and Tindale research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Tindale Crescent”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Tindale Crescent” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.