High Etherley
High Etherley is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated on a hill approximately 4 miles west of Bishop Auckland. Entering High Etherley on the A68 from West Auckland the village continues on the B6282 towards Bishop Auckland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,120 residents
- Description: village in County Durham, England, UK
- Also known as: “Etherley” and “High Etherley, County Durham”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Cuthbert and Witton Castle.
Witton Castle
Castle
Photo: Hugh Mortimer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Witton Castle is a much-altered 15th-century castle, which is the centrepiece of a holiday and caravan country park at Witton le Wear, near Bishop Auckland, County Durham. It is a Grade II* listed building. Witton Castle is situated 1½ miles northwest of High Etherley.
Escomb Church
Church
Photo: Bigbadsworld, Public domain.
Escomb Church is the Church of England parish church of Escomb, County Durham, a village about 1+1⁄2 miles west of Bishop Auckland. It is one of the oldest Anglo-Saxon churches in England and one of only four complete Anglo-Saxon churches remaining in England, the others being St Laurence's Church, Bradford-on-Avon, Greensted Church, and All Saints' Church, Brixworth. Escomb Church is situated 2 miles northeast of High Etherley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Low Etherley and Toft Hill.
Low Etherley
Village
Low Etherley is a village in County Durham, in England. It is located a few miles to the west of Bishop Auckland. In 1825 the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened a horse-drawn branch line, the Etherley Incline Railway, from West Auckland to serve Witton Park Colliery, north of Etherley.
Toft Hill
Village
Photo: Trevor Littlewood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Toft Hill is a hilltop village in County Durham, in England straggling along the A68, a few miles to the west of Bishop Auckland and adjoining the village of High Etherley.
Phoenix Row
Hamlet
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Phoenix Row incorporating Belts Gill and Softley Dene Farm is a hamlet of about 30 houses in County Durham, in England. It is situated half a mile north of Low Etherley and 2.5 miles west of Bishop Auckland.
High Etherley
- Category: locality
- Location: Etherley, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.6493° or 54° 38′ 58″ northLongitude
-1.74332° or 1° 44′ 36″ westPopulation
2,120Elevation
538 feet (164 metres)Open location code
9C6WJ7X4+PMOpenStreetMap ID
node 433902851OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2646963Wikidata ID
Q965244
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“High Etherley” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “High Etherley”
- Dutch: “High Etherley”
- French: “High Etherley”
- Irish: “High Etherley”
- Persian: “های اثرلی”
- Polish: “High Etherley”
- Swedish: “High Etherley”
- Welsh: “High Etherley”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Etherley Grange and Spring Gardens.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Etherley Cricket Club and Etherley 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 “High Etherley”. Photo: Hugh Mortimer, CC BY-SA 2.0.