England
North East England
County Durham

Bishop Auckland

Bishop Auckland is a town in in northeast England, with a population of 23,000 in 2021. The main reason to visit is the fine castle, for eight centuries a bishop's residence.
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  • Type: Town with 26,100 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in County Durham, England
  • Also known as: “Bishop Auckland, County Durham” and “Bishop-Auckland”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Auckland Castle and Vinovia.

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, also known as Auckland Palace, is a former bishop's palace located in the town of Bishop Auckland in , England. The castle was a residence of the bishops of Durham from approximately 1183 and was their primary residence between 1832 and 2012, when the castle and its contents were sold to the Trust.

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or Vinovium was a Roman fort and settlement situated just over 1 mile to the north of the town of Bishop Auckland on the banks of the in County Durham, England.

Railway station
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Bishop Auckland is a railway station that serves the market town of Bishop Auckland in , , 11 miles 77 chains north-west of Darlington.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Spennymoor and Shildon.

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is a town in , . It’s about 7 miles from City. It was a coalmining town during World War II and since the decline of that specific industry has developed into an industrial estate.

Town
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is a town and civil parish in County Durham, in England. The population taken at the 2011 Census was 9,976. The town has the , due to it having the first , built in 1825, and locomotive works on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Bishop Auckland.

Village
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is an old mining village and former civil parish in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of , England. The Boldon Book mentions a mine in in the twelfth century.

Bishop Auckland

Latitude
54.6641° or 54° 39′ 51″ north
Longitude
-1.6753° or 1° 40′ 31″ west
Population
26,100
Elevation
361 feet (110 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BIP
Open location code
9C6WM87F+JV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 262389958
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2655583
Wiki­data ID
Q866339
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Bishop Auckland” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيشوب أوكلاند”
  • Asturian: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Basque: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Bavarian: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Bengali: “বিশপ অকল্যান্ড”
  • Catalan: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Cebuano: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Chinese: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Chinese: “主教奥克兰”
  • Chinese: “比硕普奥克兰”
  • Chinese: “比碩普奧克蘭”
  • Chinese: “比索普奥克兰”
  • Chinese: “比肖普奥克兰”
  • Chinese: “畢曉普奧克蘭”
  • Czech: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Dutch: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Esperanto: “Bishop Auckland”
  • French: “Bishop Auckland”
  • German: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Greek: “Μπίσοπ Ώκλαντ”
  • Gujarati: “બિશપ ઓકલેન્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “בישופ אוקלנד”
  • Hungarian: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Irish: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Italian: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Japanese: “ビショップ・オークランド”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಷಪ್ ಆಕ್ಲೆಂಡ್”
  • Korean: “비샵 오크랜드”
  • Lithuanian: “Bišop Oklandas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Moksha: “Бишоп Оклэнд”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Norwegian: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Persian: “بیشاپ آوکلند”
  • Persian: “بیشاپ اوکلند”
  • Polish: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Portuguese: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Romanian: “Bishop auckland”
  • Romanian: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Russian: “Бишоп-Окленд”
  • Slovak: “Bishop Auckland”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیشاپ اوکلند”
  • Spanish: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Swedish: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Tamil: “பிஷப் ஆக்க்லாண்ட்”
  • Telugu: “బిషప్ ఆక్లాండ్”
  • Ukrainian: “Бішоп-Окленд”
  • Urdu: “بشپ اوکلینڈ”
  • Volapük: “Bishop Auckland”
  • Welsh: “Bishop Auckland”
  • “Bishop Auckland”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Bishop Auckland”. Photo: Riversiderouge, CC BY-SA 4.0.