Charcoal Pit

Charcoal Pit is a locality in Urpeth, County Durham, England. Charcoal Pit is situated nearby to the neighborhood 1900‘s Colliery, as well as near 1900‘s Pit Village.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Beamish Museum and Pockerley Farmhouse.

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.

Pockerley Farmhouse

House

Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Shepherd & Shepherdess

Pub

Photo: Terry Whalebone, CC BY 2.0.

The Shepherd & Shepherdess is a pub.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beamish and No Place.

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.

No Place

Village

No Place is a small village that lies between the towns of Stanley and Beamish, in County Durham, England. It lies near to the Beamish Mary coal pit, just to the south of the A693 road. The local church is known as the "Tin Chapel".