Shotton
Shotton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sedgefield, in County Durham, England. It is situated to the north-west of Stockton-on-Tees. Until 1983 it was in Foxton and Shotton parish.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: village in Sedgefield, County Durham, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Shotton, County Durham” and “Shotton, Sedgefield”
Places of Interest
Highlights include East Durham College and Apollo Pavilion.
East Durham College
College
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East Durham College, formerly known as East Durham & Houghall Community College, is a community college with campuses in Peterlee and Houghall, south-east of Durham.
Apollo Pavilion
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The Apollo Pavilion, also known as the Pasmore Pavilion, is a work of public art in the new town of Peterlee in County Durham in the North East of England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peterlee and Easington.
Peterlee
Town
Peterlee is a town in County Durham, England, south of Sunderland, north of Hartlepool, west of the Durham Coast and east of Durham. It gained town status in 1948 under the New Towns Act 1946, which also created the nearby settlements of Newton Aycliffe and Washington, Tyne and Wear. Peterlee is situated 2 miles east of Shotton.
Easington
Village
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Easington, also known as Easington Village, is a village and civil parish in eastern County Durham, England. It is located at the junction of the A182 and B1283, leading north-west to Hetton-le-Hole and south east to Horden. Easington is situated 2½ miles northeast of Shotton.
Wingate
Village
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wingate is a village in County Durham, England. Wingate is a former pit village with a mixture of 19th-century, post-war, and more recent housing developments.
Shotton
- Category: village
- Location: County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Shotton” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Shotton, Sedgefield”
- French: “Shotton”
- Irish: “Shotton”
- Welsh: “Shotton, Sedgefield”
- Welsh: “Shotton”
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