Craghead
Craghead is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Stanley, in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Beamish Museum and Holmside Hall.
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 2½ miles north of Craghead.
Holmside Hall
Farm
Holmside Hall is an early 19th-century farmhouse and equestrian centre at Holmside, Burnhope, County Durham, England. The farm is built on the site of a medieval manor house which until 1570 was the home of Robert Tempest.
Church of St Paul
Church
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Paul is situated 1½ miles northeast of Craghead.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Holmside and Quaking Houses.
Holmside
Hamlet
Photo: P Glenwright, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holmside is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated to the north-west of Sacriston. The village has a 5.5 MW wind farm, Holmside Hall Wind Farm, which became operational in May 2004 and consists of two 60 m high wind turbines.
Quaking Houses
Village
Quaking Houses is a small village near to the town of Stanley in County Durham, in England. It may have been originally settled by Quakers, but during the Industrial Revolution it developed into a mining village with traditional terraced houses.
South Moor
Hamlet
Photo: The JPS, Public domain.
South Moor is a village in the civil parish of Stanley, in County Durham, England. It is located to the south-west of Stanley on the northern slope of the Craghead valley.
Craghead
- Type: Village
- Description: village in County Durham, England, UK
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Stanley, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.85267° or 54° 51′ 10″ northLongitude
-1.66966° or 1° 40′ 11″ westElevation
571 feet (174 metres)Open location code
9C6WV83J+34OpenStreetMap ID
node 29342554OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Craghead” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Craghead”
- French: “Craghead”
- Irish: “Craghead”
- Italian: “Craghead”
- Polish: “Craghead”
- Swedish: “Craghead”
- Welsh: “Craghead”
- “Craghead”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include War Memorial and Craghead Spiritualist 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 “Craghead”. Photo: Roberto Strauss, CC BY 2.0.