Broom Hill
Broom Hill is a peak in County Durham, North East England, England. Broom Hill is situated nearby to the hamlet Old Durham, as well as near the village Shincliffe.Places of Interest
Highlights include Durham Castle and Durham railway station.
Durham Castle
University building
Photo: Carla Brain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Durham Castle 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.
Durham railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Illingworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Durham is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley; it is situated 14 miles 3 chains south of Newcastle.
Durham University Oriental Museum
Museum
The Oriental Museum, formerly the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, is a museum of the University of Durham in England. The museum has a collection of more than 23,500 Chinese, Egyptian, Korean, Indian, Japanese and other Far East and Asian artefacts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Durham and Elvet.
Durham
Durham is a city in County Durham in North East England. The name is believed to derive from "Dun-holme", or hill-island, due to its location on a meander on the River Wear.
Elvet
Suburb
Photo: Roger Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Elvet is an area of the city of Durham, in County Durham, England. It is situated on the opposite side of the River Wear from Durham Cathedral and forms the south-eastern part of central Durham.
Neville’s Cross
Suburb
Neville's Cross is a place in the civil parish of the City of Durham, in County Durham, England. It is also a ward of Durham with a population taken at the 2011 census of 9,940.
Broom Hill
- Type: Peak
- Category: landform
- Location: County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.7681° or 54° 46′ 5″ northLongitude
-1.5505° or 1° 33′ 2″ westOpen location code
9C6WQC9X+6ROpenStreetMap ID
node 4008495797OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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