Description: Fitzhugh Library
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The Fitzhugh Library was set up as a charitable trust in 1990 to maintain and expand an existing collection of local material which would be made available to the public for referenced and research.
The area covered is the old Palatinate of Durham before the 1974 boundary revisions, plus the ecclesiastical parish of Romaldkirk.
The first available location was above the Visitor Centre at Bowlees, which proved too remote to attract many callers. Later, the library was housed in premises in Hall Street, Barnard Castle and has now been moved to Woodleigh next to the Scar Top in Flatts Road.