North East England
County Durham
Stanley

Quaking Houses

Quaking Houses is a small village near to the town of in , in . It may have been originally settled by Quakers, but during the Industrial Revolution it developed into a mining village with traditional terraced houses.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Village
  • Description: village in County Durham, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Quaking Houses, County Durham”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St Andrew and St John the Evangelist.

Church
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church
Photo: Robert Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a church.

School
is a secondary school with academy status based in in , England. The school was formed in September 2011, when Greencroft Business and Enterprise Community School and Stanley School of Technology formally merged.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Moor and Oxhill.

Hamlet
Photo: The JPS, Public domain.
is a village in the civil parish of , in , England. It is located to the south-west of Stanley on the northern slope of the valley.

Hamlet
is a small village in the civil parish of , in , England. It is located to the west of Stanley, on the bottom of the hill which leads up to and to its east.

Village
is a village in , in . It is situated close to the A693 road between and , and is slightly larger than nearby East Kyo to the north east and , 15 minutes walk via public footpath to the north at the other side of the C2C cycle path. is situated to the east on the way to Stanley.

Quaking Houses

Latitude
54.85348° or 54° 51′ 13″ north
Longitude
-1.70366° or 1° 42′ 13″ west
Elevation
656 feet (200 metres)
Open location code
9C6WV73W+9G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 303926268
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
12266046
Wiki­data ID
Q7268608
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Welsh—“Quaking Houses” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Quaking Houses”
  • French: “Quaking Houses”
  • Irish: “Quaking Houses”
  • Polish: “Quaking Houses”
  • Welsh: “Quaking Houses”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include South Moor Cricket Club and Memorial Park.

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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 “Quaking Houses”. Photo: Roberto Strauss, CC BY 2.0.