Toft Hill
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Trevor Littlewood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in County Durham, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Toft Hill, 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.
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 2½ miles northeast of Toft Hill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include High Etherley and Low Etherley.
High Etherley
Village
Photo: Hugh Mortimer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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.
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.
Toft Hill
- Category: locality
- Location: Etherley, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.64868° or 54° 38′ 55″ northLongitude
-1.75808° or 1° 45′ 29″ westElevation
696 feet (212 metres)Open location code
9C6WJ6XR+FQOpenStreetMap ID
node 4514398337OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Toft Hill” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Toft Hill, County Durham”
- French: “Toft Hill”
- Irish: “Toft Hill”
- Polish: “Toft Hill (Durham)”
- Polish: “Toft Hill”
- Welsh: “Toft Hill, Swydd Durham”
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Highlights include High Toft Hill Quarry and Quarry Wood.
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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 “Toft Hill”. Photo: Trevor Littlewood, CC BY-SA 2.0.