North East England
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Lanchester

Lanchester

Lanchester is a village and civil parish in , England, 8 miles west of and 5 miles from . It had a population at the 2011 Census of 4,054.
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  • Type: Village with 3,540 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in County Durham, England
  • Also known as: “Lanchester, County Durham”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Longovicium and St Bede’s Catholic School and Sixth Form College.

Archaeological site
Photo: David Collins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was an auxiliary fort located on Roman Dere Street, in the Roman province of Britannia Inferior. It is located just southwest of Lanchester in the English county of , roughly 8 miles to the west of the city of and 5 miles from .

School
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St Bede's Catholic School and Sixth Form College is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Lanchester, , England.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 2 miles northeast of Lanchester.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ornsby Hill and Newbiggin.

Hamlet
is a village in , in England. is situated immediately to the north of Lanchester at the junction of the A691 and A6076 roads. Administratively it forms part of the civil parish of Lanchester.

Hamlet
Lanchester is a village and civil parish in , England, 8 miles west of and 5 miles from . It had a population at the 2011 Census of 4,054.

Village
Photo: P Glenwright, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in , England. It is located in the valley on the opposite side to and has 1,564 inhabitants, as measured in the 2011 census.

Lanchester

Latitude
54.82201° or 54° 49′ 19″ north
Longitude
-1.74295° or 1° 44′ 35″ west
Population
3,540
Elevation
381 feet (116 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB XTL
Open location code
9C6WR7C4+RR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 267155320
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2644968
Wiki­data ID
Q861627
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Lanchester” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Lanchester (Durham konderria)”
  • Basque: “Lanchester”
  • Breton: “Lanchester (Durham)”
  • Breton: “Lanchester”
  • Catalan: “Lanchester”
  • Cebuano: “Lanchester”
  • Dutch: “Lanchester, County Durham”
  • French: “Lanchester”
  • German: “Lanchester”
  • Irish: “Lanchester”
  • Italian: “Lanchester”
  • Persian: “لنچستر، کانتی دورام”
  • Polish: “Lanchester”
  • Portuguese: “Lanchester”
  • Swedish: “Lanchester”
  • Turkish: “Lanchester, County Durham”
  • Turkish: “Lanchester, Durham Kontluğu”
  • Welsh: “Lanchester, Swydd Durham”
  • Welsh: “Lanchester”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Lanchester Post Office and Lanchester 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 “Lanchester”. Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.