(16 Mar 2014, 6:07 pm)AdamY wrote Not really. The 34/34A only skirts Pelton on its way to Ouston and Urpeth Grange and doesn't serve Grange Villa. Newfield or Pelton Fell.
The route suggested by Marcus would be similar to the old 739/740 circular service through Pelton, Grange Villa and Pelton Fell.
In the years leading up to the 739/740 being withdrawn, it didn't serve Pelton (just Newfield) - but may have done in years gone by.
It followed the 28/a route to Grange Villa, the current 78 route to Newfield and then dropped down to where Beamish Transport is, before returning under the railway viaduct (or vice versa).
There are old Northern flags up by where Pelton Station was, so there has obviously been a route between the two (possibly a forerunner of the last 739/740 route), but just not in the last few decades.
Pelton was linked to Grange Villa and Newfield with the 728 and now the 78.
The only buses up Pelaw Bank when I lived there in late 90s/early 00s, were the Consett buses, the Chester local minibus that went into Hilda Park (Scarlet Band have it now) and the 733 & 734.