Peterlee
Peterlee is a town in County Durham, England, south of Sunderland, north of Hartlepool, west of the Durham Coast and east of Durham. It gained town status in 1948 under the New Towns Act 1946, which also created the nearby settlements of Newton Aycliffe and Washington, Tyne and Wear.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 20,200 residents
- Description: town in County Durham, England
- Also known as: “Peterlee, County Durham”
Places of Interest
Highlights include East Durham College and Peterlee Community Hospital.
East Durham College
College
Photo: Adidostar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East Durham College, formerly known as East Durham & Houghall Community College, is a community college with campuses in Peterlee and Houghall, south-east of Durham.
Peterlee Community Hospital
Hospital
Peterlee Community Hospital is a health facility in O'Neill Drive, Peterlee, County Durham, England. It is managed by North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Horden and Little Thorpe.
Horden
Village
Photo: michael patterson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Horden is a village and electoral ward in County Durham, England. It is situated on the North Sea coast, to the east of Peterlee, approximately 12 miles south of Sunderland.
Little Thorpe
Village
Little Thorpe is a hamlet in the civil parish of Easington Village, in County Durham, England. It is between Easington and Peterlee.
Old Shotton
Quarter
Old Shotton is a village in Peterlee, County Durham, England. The village once lay on the route of the A19, before its bypass to the west of the village.
Peterlee
- Categories: civil parish, new town (UK), and locality
- Location: Peterlee, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.76189° or 54° 45′ 43″ northLongitude
-1.33215° or 1° 19′ 56″ westPopulation
20,200Elevation
331 feet (101 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PTEOpen location code
9C6WQM69+Q4OpenStreetMap ID
node 33074862OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Peterlee from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Peterlee” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Peterlee”
- Basque: “Peterlee”
- Bengali: “পিটারলি”
- Bulgarian: “Питърли”
- Catalan: “Peterlee”
- Cebuano: “Peterlee”
- Chinese: “Peterlee”
- Chinese: “彼得利”
- Dutch: “Peterlee”
- French: “Peterlee”
- German: “Peterlee”
- Gujarati: “પીટરલી”
- Hebrew: “פיטרלי”
- Hungarian: “Peterlee”
- Irish: “Peterlee”
- Italian: “Peterlee”
- Japanese: “ピーターリー”
- Kannada: “ಪೀಟರ್ಲೀ”
- Korean: “피터리”
- Lithuanian: “Peterlis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Peterlee”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peterlee”
- Persian: “پترلی”
- Polish: “Peterlee”
- Portuguese: “Peterlee”
- Romanian: “Peterlee”
- Russian: “Петерли”
- Russian: “Питерли”
- South Azerbaijani: “پترلی”
- Spanish: “Peterlee (Condado de Durham)”
- Spanish: “Peterlee”
- Swedish: “Peterlee”
- Tamil: “பெட்டர்லீ”
- Telugu: “పెటేర్లీ”
- Urdu: “پیتیرلیی”
- Volapük: “Peterlee”
- Welsh: “Peterlee”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Peterlee”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Grants Houses and Easington Colliery.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Peterlee Post Office and The Chare.
County Durham: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, and Stockton-on-Tees.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
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 “Peterlee”. Photo: Roberto Strauss, CC BY 2.0.