The Pit Village and Colliery
The Pit Village and Colliery is in Urpeth, County Durham, England. The Pit Village and Colliery is situated nearby to Mahogany Drift Mine, as well as near Pit Hill Methodist Chapel.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Beamish Museum and The Shepherd & Shepherdess.
Beamish Museum
Museum
Photo: Barry Skeates, CC BY 2.0.
Beamish Museum is an open-air museum located in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum. By displaying duplicates or replaceable items, it was also an early example of the now commonplace practice of museums allowing visitors to touch objects. Beamish Museum is situated 1,400 feet northeast of The Pit Village and Colliery.
The Shepherd & Shepherdess
Pub
Photo: Terry Whalebone, CC BY 2.0.
The Shepherd & Shepherdess is a pub, which is situated 1,600 feet southeast of The Pit Village and Colliery.
Pockerley Farmhouse
House
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pockerley Farmhouse is situated 1,800 feet northeast of The Pit Village and Colliery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include No Place and Beamish.
No Place
Village
No Place is a small village near the town of Stanley in County Durham, England, east of Stanley and west of Beamish. Situated to the south of the A693, it is home to an award-winning real ale pub, the Beamish Mary Inn, and lies near the Beamish Mary coal pit.
Beamish
Photo: Barry Skeates, CC BY 2.0.
Beamish is a village in County Durham in northeast England. The village is just a straggle of miners' houses and the only reason to visit is the extensive open-air museum. Stanley is a former mining town two miles west, with a population of 19,427 in 2021.
Kip Hill
Hamlet
Kip Hill is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated directly to the north of Stanley, near Shield Row. It has two pubs, the Blue Bell Inn and the Ball Alley* 2The 3rd Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1921 The area was once known as Kiphill but sometime between 1895 and 1898 this changed to the current Kip Hill.
The Pit Village and Colliery
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- Categories: information and tourism
- Location: Urpeth, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.88224° or 54° 52′ 56″ northLongitude
-1.6617° or 1° 39′ 42″ westOpen location code
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