Woodside Common

The Greenwood map of County Durham, surveyed between 1818 and 1819, marks Woodside as a township with a substantial common at its centre. This was depicted more clearly on on the Ordnance Survey First Edition of 1862, surveyed in 1857, as 'Woodside Common' and on the subsequent editions. Aerial photographs taken in the 1940s show post-medieval narrow ridge and furrow earthworks. More recent aerial photography, taken primarily in the 1990s, shows that some of the earthworks are no longer extant. Some are built over and some are quarried although remnants of the sub-surface ridge and furrow was identified during a geophysical survey in 2015.