Hamsterley
Hamsterley is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated a few miles west of Bishop Auckland. The village lies on a rise above the upper reaches of the Wear valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 550 residents
- Description: village and civil parish near Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England
- Also known as: “Hamsterley by Bishop Auckland”, “Hamsterley, Bishop Auckland”, and “Hamsterley, County Durham”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hamsterley Baptist Chapel and Hamsterley War Memorial.
Hamsterley Baptist Chapel
Church
Photo: Hugh Mortimer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hamsterley Baptist Chapel is a church.
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 2½ miles east of Hamsterley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bedburn and Witton-le-Wear.
Bedburn
Locality
Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bedburn is a village in County Durham, in England. It is in the civil parish of South Bedburn, near Hamsterley, and Hamsterley Forest. The Bedburn Beck a tributary of the River Wear, flows past the village.
Witton-le-Wear
Village
Photo: Hugh Mortimer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Witton-le-Wear is a village in County Durham, North East England. It is situated on the north bank of the River Wear, 6 km to the north-west of Bishop Auckland. Witton-le-Wear is situated 2 miles east of Hamsterley.
Morley
Hamlet
Photo: Trevor Littlewood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Morley is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated five miles to the west of Bishop Auckland. Morley is first mentioned in 1295, already with its present spelling; its coal mine was mentioned, as Morleypitte already in c. Morley is situated 2 miles south of Hamsterley.
Hamsterley
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Hamsterley, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.67482° or 54° 40′ 29″ northLongitude
-1.8226° or 1° 49′ 21″ westPopulation
550Elevation
397 feet (121 metres)Open location code
9C6WM5FG+WXOpenStreetMap ID
node 894592856OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2647542Wikidata ID
Q5646429
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Hamsterley” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Хамстерлей”
- Cebuano: “Hamsterley”
- Dutch: “Hamsterley”
- French: “Hamsterley”
- Irish: “Hamsterley”
- Polish: “Hamsterley”
- Swedish: “Hamsterley”
- Welsh: “Hamsterley, Bishop Auckland”
- Welsh: “Hamsterley”
- “Hamsterley”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Hamsterley”. Photo: Roberto Strauss, CC BY 2.0.