Blackhall Rocks

Coordinates: 54°44′20″N 1°16′44″W / 54.739°N 1.279°W / 54.739; -1.279

Blackhall Rocks
Cliffs near Blackhall Rocks
Blackhall Rocks  Blackhall Rocks shown within County Durham
OS grid reference	NZ465385
Shire county	County Durham
Region	North East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TEESSIDE
Postcode district	TS27 4DB
Police	Durham
Fire	County Durham and Darlington
Ambulance	North East
EU Parliament	North East England
List of places: UK • England • County Durham

Blackhall Rocks is a village on the North Sea coast of County Durham, in England. It is situated on the A1086 between Horden and Hartlepool, and just south of Blackhall Colliery which it adjoins. It is sometimes literally referred to by locals in the area as "The Rocks".

The village takes its name from the "Tweddle Blackhall Farms" which are located on a lane which runs between Crimdon and High Hesleden located roughly one mile to the south of Blackhall Rocks. Whereas the "Rocks" describe the cliff-tops nearby.

One of the earliest mentions of Blackhall Rocks is in the mid-Nineteenth Century, when the beach was photographed. This was a time when the beach was part of a minor holiday resort, due to the location of a hotel above the cliffs. It was around this time a railways station was established here, which was closed by the Dr Beeching Axe in the 1960s. The hotel remained up until the 1970s when it was demolished, at a time when it had been used as apartments, as a form of temporary housing, by Easington (district) Council, since the 1940s.

Despite the presence of the hotel, it was not until the 1920s and 1930s that Blackhall Rocks really developed as a community and village, something which is itself evident driving down the "Coast Road" (the A1086). Most of the houses along this road were built for middle-class commuters, hence the proliferation of semi-detached houses and bungalows. In the late 1930s the local council built a large Council Estate to the West of the "Coast Road", around the road to High Hesleden. Later on in the 1960s and 1970s a series of new Council homes were built to the East, between the "Coast Road" and the Railway line.

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