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 Winding Engine House And Boiler House At The Colliery.

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.

Winding Engine House And Boiler House At The Colliery

Industrial building

Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Winding Engine House And Boiler House At The Colliery is an industrial building.

Pockerley Farmhouse

House

Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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 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.