Fishburn
Fishburn Airfield is a small grass strip airfield in Fishburn, County Durham. The airfield was opened on 30 June 1995 by the then local MP and Leader of the Opposition Tony Blair.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airfield in County Durham, England, UK
- Also known as: “Fishburn Aerodrome” and “Fishburn Airfield”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Catherine and Bishop Middleham Quarry.
Bishop Middleham Quarry
Nature reserve
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bishop Middleham Quarry is a disused quarry, about 4 kilometres north-west of Sedgefield, County Durham, England. Quarry-working here ceased in 1934, and the site has since been colonised by vegetation.
NETPark
NETPark, or the North East Technology Park, is a British science park in Sedgefield, Durham. It is owned by Durham County Council and run by Business Durham, the business support service of the council, with strategic partners Centre for Process Innovation and Durham University.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fishburn and Bishop Middleham.
Fishburn
Village
Photo: peter robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fishburn is a village and civil parish in County Durham, in England. It is situated about 12 miles west of Hartlepool. The population was 2,454, increasing to 2,588 at the 2011 Census.
Bishop Middleham
Village
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bishop Middleham is a village in County Durham, in England. The population of the parish as taken at the 2011 census was 1,275 It is close to Sedgefield.
Garmondsway
Hamlet
Garmondsway is a small dispersed hamlet in the parish of Kelloe in County Durham, England situated between Durham and Sedgefield. It is notable as including substantial remains of an abandoned village including an extant ridge and furrow field system and became a scheduled monument in 1957.
Fishburn
- Category: transportation
- Location: County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.68702° or 54° 41′ 13″ northLongitude
-1.45851° or 1° 27′ 31″ westElevation
358 feet (109 metres)Open location code
9C6WMGPR+RHOpenStreetMap ID
way 157699533OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Persian to Tajik—“Fishburn” goes by many names.
- Persian: “فرودگاه صحرایی فیش برن”
- Persian: “فرودگاه صحرایی فیشبرن”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи саҳро фӣбирн”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Trimdon Village and Mill House.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Spennymoor and District Clay Pigeon Club and Fishburn Grassland SSSI.
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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 “Fishburn”. Photo: Roberto Strauss, CC BY 2.0.