George Stephenson lived in "Dial Cottage", which still stands on the Great Lime Road in West Moor, south of Killingworth. Originally a one bderoom cottage, Stephenson extended and converted the premises to become a comfortable four-roomed house It was while living there that there that Stephenson developed one of the earliest locomotives, called the Blücher, which ran on the Killingworth colliery railway in 1814.

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