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==The village today== [[File:Wolviston Village Community Centre - geograph.org.uk - 1809575.jpg|thumb|The village community centre]] Wolviston is a community with a cricket and a [[Wearside League]] football team, a guides association and allotment holders' club.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7102231.wolvistons-dreams-lords-fast-approaching-reality/|title=Wolviston's dreams of Lord's fast approaching reality|publisher=The Northern Echo|date=7 August 2001|access-date=1 March 2020 }}</ref> Near to Wolviston in [[Wynyard, County Durham|Wynyard]] is [[Wynyard Hall]], historically the family home of the Londonderry dynasty, whose fortune came from the ownership of several collieries and a port in County Durham. The present Wynyard Hall was completed in 1848 and many royal visitors were entertained there over the following hundred years. The war memorial commemorates the Wolviston casualties in both World Wars.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/nostalgia/look-back-history-wynyard-hall-12512226|title=A look back at the history of Wynyard Hall - and the great and the good who have stayed there|date=28 January 2017 |publisher=Teesside Live|access-date=1 March 2020 }}</ref> The A19 ran through the village until it was bypassed in the 1970s to the east then in the 1980s bypassed to the west when the original bypass became gridlocked towards Billingham and Stockton during rush hours. The A689 also used to run through the village but was bypassed to the north in the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://englandsnortheast.co.uk/billingham/|title=Billingham|publisher=England's North East|access-date=1 March 2010 }}</ref>
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