Gilesgate
Gilesgate is a street and an eastern inner suburb of Durham in County Durham, England. The street was once the main eastern route into Durham City. It runs east from the end of Claypath on the edge of Durham City centre, steeply uphill to Gilesgate Moor where it splits into Sunderland Road and Sherburn Road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Carol Bleasdale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Giles Church, Durham and Kepier Hospital.
St Giles Church, Durham
Church
Photo: Carol Bleasdale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St. Giles Church is a Grade I listed parish church in Gilesgate, County Durham, England. It was founded in 1112 by Bishop Ranulf Flambard as the chapel for nearby St. Giles' Hospital.
Kepier Hospital
Archaeological site
Photo: GRAEME and LESLEY CRANSTON, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kepier Hospital was a medieval hospital at Kepier, Durham, England.
Durham Castle
University building
Photo: Carla Brain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Durham Castle is a Norman castle in the city of Durham, England, which has been occupied since 1837 by University College, Durham after its previous role as the residence of the Bishops of Durham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kepier and Old Durham.
Kepier
Locality
Kepier is a location in the city of Durham, England in the parish of Belmont, close to Gilesgate and beside the River Wear. It is site of the medieval Hospital of St Giles at Kepier.
Old Durham
Hamlet
Photo: Roger Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Old Durham is a hamlet in County Durham, in England. It is situated approximately 1 mile east of central Durham and south of Gilesgate. The most northerly remains of a Romanised farmstead in the Roman Empire were excavated at Old Durham during 1940s.
Elvet
Suburb
Photo: Roger Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Elvet is an area of the city of Durham, in County Durham, England. It is situated on the opposite side of the River Wear from Durham Cathedral and forms the south-eastern part of central Durham.
Gilesgate
- Type: Suburb with 6,750 residents
- Description: suburb of Durham, in County Durham, England, UK
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.7808° or 54° 46′ 51″ northLongitude
-1.55164° or 1° 33′ 6″ westPopulation
6,750Elevation
299 feet (91 metres)Open location code
9C6WQCJX+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 313239715OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
13269245Wikidata ID
Q5561748
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Gilesgate” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Gilesgate”
- French: “Gilesgate”
- Irish: “Gilesgate”
- Polish: “Gilesgate”
- Welsh: “Gilesgate”
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Localities in the Area
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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 “Gilesgate”. Photo: Carol Bleasdale, CC BY-SA 2.0.