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Witton-le-Wear's last village shop was converted into a house around the turn of the millennium, leaving the village with only two pubs and a sprinkling of houses. Despite the lack of commercial interest the village is still growing, with recent approval of plans for 14 new houses in the field below Castle View, and an under-11s playground having been built using lottery funds.
George Reynolds also funded a £100,000 fibreglass hall for the expanding school in Witton-le-Wear, which comprises approximately 100 pupils and 10 staff. The school was founded in the 1960s, along with Castle View in the upper half of the village, as a larger alternative to what has now been converted to the Community Centre on School Street. Its catchment area is no longer limited to the village but also takes pupils from neaby Hamsterley, Howden-le-Wear and Crook, which is what prompted the construction of the hall.
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