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County Durham
Shildon

Shildon

Shildon is a town and civil parish in County Durham, in England. The population taken at the 2011 Census was 9,976. The town has the , due to it having the first , built in 1825, and locomotive works on the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
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  • Type: Town with 9,980 residents
  • Description: town in County Durham, England
  • Also known as: “Shildon, County Durham”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shildon War Memorial and Shildon Tunnel.

Memorial
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Tunnel
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a railway tunnel on the Tees Valley line between , and in , England. Although designed to have two tracks, the line is single-track through the tunnel and on to Bishop Auckland.

Railway station
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shildon is a railway station serving the town of Shildon in County Durham, England on the Tees Valley Line, between and via .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eldon and Eldon Lane.

Village
is a village in , England. It is situated a few miles south-west of , a short distance from Shildon. It gives its name to the peerage of the Earls of .

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a village in , in England. It is situated a few miles south-west of , a short distance from Shildon. In 2021 it had a population of 998.

Village
is a village in the civil parish of , in , England. It is situated to the east of . In the 2001 census had a population of 235.

Shildon

Latitude
54.63262° or 54° 37′ 57″ north
Longitude
-1.6486° or 1° 38′ 55″ west
Population
9,980
Elevation
433 feet (132 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SDN
Open location code
9C6WJ9M2+2H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 433872009
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2637983
Wiki­data ID
Q2575415
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Shildon” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Shildon”
  • Basque: “Shildon”
  • Bengali: “শিল্ডন”
  • Cebuano: “Shildon”
  • Chinese: “Shildon”
  • Chinese: “希尔登”
  • Chinese: “希爾登”
  • Czech: “Shildon”
  • Dutch: “Shildon”
  • French: “Shildon”
  • German: “Shildon”
  • Gujarati: “શિલ્ડન”
  • Hebrew: “שילדון”
  • Irish: “Shildon”
  • Italian: “Shildon”
  • Japanese: “シルドン”
  • Kannada: “ಶಿಲ್ಡನ್”
  • Korean: “쉴돈”
  • Lithuanian: “Šildonas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Shildon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shildon”
  • Persian: “شیلدون”
  • Polish: “Shildon”
  • Portuguese: “Shildon”
  • Romanian: “Shildon”
  • Russian: “Шилдон”
  • Slovak: “Shildon”
  • Slovenian: “Shildon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیلدون”
  • Spanish: “Shildon”
  • Swedish: “Shildon”
  • Tamil: “சில்டன்”
  • Telugu: “షిల్డన్”
  • Turkish: “Shildon”
  • Urdu: “شیلدون”
  • Welsh: “Shildon”
  • “Shildon”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Shildon Library and Shildon Methodist Church.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shildon”. Photo: David Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.