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County Durham

Durham

Durham is a city in in North East . The name is believed to derive from "Dun-holme", or hill-island, due to its location on a meander on the River Wear.
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  • Type: City with 42,100 residents
  • Description: city and the county town of County Durham in North East England
  • Also known as: “Durham City” and “Durham, England”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Durham Castle and Durham railway station.

University building
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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.

Railway station
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Durham is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between and . The station, situated 14 miles 3 chains south of Newcastle, serves the cathedral city of Durham in , England.

Community center
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Redhills is Grade II listed headquarters building of the Durham Miners' Association in Durham, England. Officially called Miners' New Hall, it is known as Redhills from its location on Redhills Lane in the City of Durham.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Elvet and Neville’s Cross.

Suburb
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is an area of the city of Durham, in , England. It is situated on the opposite side of the from and forms the south-eastern part of central Durham.

Suburb
Neville's Cross is a place in the civil parish of the City of Durham, in , England. It is also a ward of Durham with a population taken at the 2011 census of 9,940.

Suburb
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is a suburb forming the north-eastern parts of the city of Durham, England. Parish covers four old coal mining villages of , Carrville, Broomside and Gilesgate Moor, which have been joined by industrial and suburban developments since the 1950s.

Durham

Latitude
54.777° or 54° 46′ 37″ north
Longitude
-1.5756° or 1° 34′ 32″ west
Population
42,100
Elevation
171 feet (52 metres)
IATA airport code
MME
United Nations Location Code
GB DRH
Open location code
9C6WQCGF+RQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21181736
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2650628
Wiki­data ID
Q179815
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Durham” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Durham”
  • Arabic: “درم”
  • Arabic: “درهام، إنجلترا”
  • Arabic: “درهام”
  • Armenian: “Դարհեմ”
  • Asturian: “Durham”
  • Bashkir: “Дарем”
  • Basque: “Durham”
  • Belarusian: “Дарэм”
  • Bengali: “ডারহাম”
  • Breton: “Durham”
  • Bulgarian: “Дърам”
  • Catalan: “Durham”
  • Cebuano: “Durham (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
  • Cebuano: “Durham”
  • Chinese: “Durham”
  • Chinese: “對衡”
  • Chinese: “德倫”
  • Chinese: “杜倫”
  • Chinese: “杜咸”
  • Chinese: “达勒姆”
  • Chinese: “達拉謨”
  • Cornish: “Durham”
  • Czech: “Durham”
  • Danish: “Durham”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Durham”
  • Dutch: “Durham”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دورهام, انجلترا”
  • Esperanto: “Durham”
  • Estonian: “Durham”
  • Finnish: “Durham”
  • French: “Durham”
  • Galician: “Durham, Inglaterra”
  • Galician: “Durham”
  • Georgian: “დარემი”
  • German: “Durham”
  • Greek: “Ντάραμ”
  • Greek: “Ντάρχαμ”
  • Gujarati: “ડરહામ”
  • Hebrew: “דרהאם”
  • Hindi: “डरहम, इंग्लैंड”
  • Hindi: “डरहम”
  • Hungarian: “Durham”
  • Icelandic: “Durham”
  • Indonesian: “Durham”
  • Irish: “Durham”
  • Italian: “Durham Coalfield”
  • Italian: “Durham”
  • Japanese: “ダーラム”
  • Japanese: “ダラム”
  • Japanese: “ダラム市”
  • Kannada: “ಡರ್ಹಮ್”
  • Kazakh: “Дарем”
  • Korean: “더럼”
  • Kurdish: “Durham”
  • Latin: “Dunelm”
  • Latin: “Dunelmum”
  • Latvian: “Darema”
  • Lithuanian: “Daramas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Durham”
  • Malay: “Durham”
  • Marathi: “डरहम”
  • Mazanderani: “دورهام”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Durham (Eng-lân)”
  • Moksha: “Дарэм”
  • Narom: “Durham”
  • Northern Frisian: “Durham”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Durham”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Durham i England”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Durham”
  • Norwegian: “Durham”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dunholm”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dúnholm”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dūnholm”
  • Ossetian: “Дарем”
  • Persian: “دورام”
  • Persian: “دورهام”
  • Polish: “Durham”
  • Portuguese: “Durham”
  • Quechua: “Durham”
  • Romanian: “Durham”
  • Russian: “Дарем”
  • Russian: “Дархем”
  • Russian: “Дарэм”
  • Russian: “Дергем, город в Англии”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Durham”
  • Serbian: “Daram”
  • Serbian: “Durham”
  • Serbian: “Дарам”
  • Serbian: “Дарем”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Durham”
  • Silesian: “Durham”
  • Sinhala: “ඩර්හැම්”
  • Slovak: “Durham”
  • Slovenian: “Durham”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دورام”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Durham”
  • Spanish: “Durham”
  • Swedish: “Durham (grevskapshuvudort i Storbritannien)”
  • Swedish: “Durham”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Durham”
  • Tajik: “Дарем”
  • Tamil: “டர்ஹாம்”
  • Telugu: “డోరెమ్”
  • Thai: “เดอรัม”
  • Thai: “เดอแรม”
  • Thai: “เดอแรห์ม”
  • Turkish: “Durham”
  • Uighur: “Durham”
  • Uighur: “دۇرھام”
  • Ukrainian: “Дарем”
  • Urdu: “ڈرہم، انگلستان”
  • Urdu: “ڈرہم”
  • Vietnamese: “Durham”
  • Volapük: “Durham”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Durham”
  • Welsh: “Caerweir”
  • Welsh: “Durham”
  • Welsh: “Dyrham”
  • Western Frisian: “Durham”
  • Wu Chinese: “达勒姆”
  • Yiddish: “דארהאם”
  • Yue Chinese: “對衡”

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