The following link will take you to an article in The Northern Echo paying tribute to Jean Galloway, a local woman who played an important part in the D-Day landings. She met her husband on Croft bridge when she was 16.

http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/display.var.1968314.0.tributes_to_dday_wireless_operator.php

Daniel Defoe, best known as author of Robinson Crusoe, also wrote a three volume travel book where reference is made to Hell Kettles pond. The book, Tour through the whole island of Great Britain, was published between 1724 and 1727. The link below contains some excerpts from the book including the reference to Hell Kettles, and a less than complimentary opinion of Darlington. They may be found towards the end of the page.

http://vision.edina.ac.uk/text/chap_page.jsp?t_id=Defoe&c_id=33&p_id=21

Google Alerts has, this week, thrown up an interesting blog post on the Sockburn Worm.

 http://harvestbird.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/the-sockburn-worm/

Thanks to Google Maps for this.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Croft+On+Tees,+Darlington,+UK&ie=UTF8&ll=54.483116,-1.561024&spn=0.007841,0.017467&t=h&z=16&om=1

The Lewis Carroll Sociiety of North America has a great deal of information on Lewis Carroll. The following link is well worth a visit.

 http://www.lewiscarroll.org/

An interesting article discussing the history of the Great North Road and the places it passes through. It is well worth travelling along the road with the website, there is some very interesting information.

http://www.biffvernon.freeserve.co.uk/croft-on-tees.htm

The following link takes you to the homepage for the village's primary school.

http://www.croftprimaryschool.org/

The following link takes you to a BBC article about Lewis Carroll and how the famous Cheshire Cat may have been inspired by a carving in St Peters Church.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/tees/features/tees_trail/tees_croft.shtml