Pelton
Pelton is a village and electoral ward in County Durham, in England. The population of the village and ward taken at the 2011 census was 8,250. It is located about two miles to the northwest of Chester-le-Street.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Roger Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 5,370 residents
- Description: village in County Durham, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Pelton, County Durham”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pelton Fell Cenotaph and memorial gates and Beamish Museum.
Beamish Museum
Museum
Photo: Barry Skeates, CC BY 2.0.
Beamish Museum is the first regional open-air museum, in England, located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum. Beamish Museum is situated 2 miles northwest of Pelton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newfield and Perkinsville.
Newfield
Village
Photo: P Glenwright, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newfield is a village in County Durham, England. It lies west of the town of Chester-le-Street, and falls partly within the civil parish of Pelton. In 2021 it had a population of 1529.
Perkinsville
Village
Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Perkinsville is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated immediately to the north of Pelton and north-west of Chester-le-Street. There are a few shops including a convenience store, a fish and chip shop and a Beauty Salon.
Urpeth
Village
Urpeth is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated a short distance from Ouston and Beamish, near the border with Tyne and Wear. The parish population taken at the 2011 census was 3,630.
Pelton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Pelton, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.8715° or 54° 52′ 17″ northLongitude
-1.61251° or 1° 36′ 45″ westPopulation
5,370Elevation
285 feet (87 metres)Open location code
9C6WV9CP+HXOpenStreetMap ID
node 29277810OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2640511Wikidata ID
Q7161759
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Pelton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلتون”
- Basque: “Pelton (Durham konderria)”
- Basque: “Pelton”
- Bengali: “পেল্টন”
- Cebuano: “Pelton”
- Chinese: “佩尔顿”
- Chinese: “佩爾頓”
- Dutch: “Pelton, County Durham”
- French: “Pelton”
- German: “Pelton”
- Gujarati: “પેલ્ટન”
- Irish: “Pelton”
- Japanese: “ぺルトン”
- Kannada: “ಪೆಲ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “펠턴”
- Lithuanian: “Peltonas”
- Polish: “Pelton (Durham)”
- Polish: “Pelton”
- Portuguese: “Pelton”
- Russian: “Пелтон”
- Silesian: “Pelton”
- Spanish: “Pelton”
- Swedish: “Pelton, Durham”
- Swedish: “Pelton”
- Tamil: “பெல்டன்”
- Telugu: “పెల్టన్”
- Urdu: “پیلٹن”
- Welsh: “Pelton, Swydd Durham”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pelton Youth And Community Centre and Thornton Pocket Park.
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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 “Pelton”. Photo: Roger Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.