Oakenshaw Colliery
Oakenshaw Colliery is a mine in Greater Willington, County Durham, England. Oakenshaw Colliery is situated nearby to the forest Stockley Gill Plantation, as well as near Stockley Fell Reservoir.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Paul and Willington, Oakenshaw, and Page Bank War Memorial Cross.
St Paul
Church
Photo: Robert Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Paul is a church, which is situated 2½ miles northwest of Oakenshaw Colliery.
Willington, Oakenshaw, and Page Bank War Memorial Cross
Memorial
Photo: David Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Willington, Oakenshaw, and Page Bank War Memorial Cross is situated 1½ miles south of Oakenshaw Colliery.
Parkside Academy
School
Parkside Academy, is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Hall Lane Estate, Willington, Crook, County Durham, England. Parkside teaches a wide range of standard, and specialist curriculum subjects as well as a multitude of after school activities. Parkside Academy is situated 2 miles south of Oakenshaw Colliery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oakenshaw and Willington.
Oakenshaw
Village
Oakenshaw is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated to the north of Willington. In the 2001 census Oakenshaw had a population of 470. The village was purely a colliery village built for workers at the pit owned by Messrs.
Willington
Village
Photo: David Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Willington is a town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Greater Willington, in County Durham and the ceremonial county of Durham, England. Willington stands in the foothills of the Pennines and near the River Wear close to Crook, Bishop Auckland and Durham.
Helmington Row
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Helmington Row is a small village in County Durham, England. It is situated between Crook and Willington, about 7 miles south-west of Durham and 3 miles north-north-west of Bishop Auckland. Helmington Row is situated 1½ miles southwest of Oakenshaw Colliery.
Oakenshaw Colliery
- Type: Mine
- Categories: historic site and industry
- Location: Greater Willington, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.73243° or 54° 43′ 57″ northLongitude
-1.69146° or 1° 41′ 29″ westOpen location code
9C6WP8J5+XCOpenStreetMap ID
node 434023660OpenStreetMap feature
historic=mine
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