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County Durham

Spennymoor

Spennymoor is a town in , . It’s about 7 miles from City. It was a coalmining town during World War II and since the decline of that specific industry Spennymoor has developed into an industrial estate.
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  • Type: Town with 17,800 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in County Durham, England
  • Also known as: “Spennymoor, County Durham”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Whitworth Hall Country Park and Church of St Paul.

Park
Photo: Petershiltons, Public domain.
is a parkland based set in 73 acres 8 miles from in , which rests on the outskirts of the town of Spennymoor in .

Church
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church
Photo: Alex McGregor, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bishop Auckland and Ferryhill.

Photo: Riversiderouge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town in in northeast England, with a population of 23,000 in 2021. The main reason to visit is the fine castle, for eight centuries a bishop's residence.

Town
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is a town and civil parish in County Durham, England, with an estimated population in 2018 of 9,362. The town grew in the 1900s around the coal mining industry. is situated 2 miles east of Spennymoor.

Village
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is a village in the civil parish of Spennymoor, in , England. It lies just outside Spennymoor, a short distance to the west of the Great North Road.

Spennymoor

Latitude
54.6996° or 54° 41′ 58″ north
Longitude
-1.6012° or 1° 36′ 4″ west
Population
17,800
Elevation
364 feet (111 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SPN
Open location code
9C6WM9XX+RG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 307717048
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2637235
Wiki­data ID
Q2219517
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Spennymoor” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Spennymoor”
  • Azerbaijani: “Spennimur”
  • Basque: “Spennymoor”
  • Bengali: “স্পেনিমোর”
  • Cebuano: “Spennymoor”
  • Chinese: “Spennymoor”
  • Chinese: “斯彭尼穆爾”
  • Chinese: “斯本尼摩尔”
  • Chinese: “斯本尼摩爾”
  • Dutch: “Spennymoor”
  • French: “Spennymoor”
  • German: “Spennymoor”
  • Gujarati: “સ્પેનીમુર”
  • Irish: “Spennymoor”
  • Italian: “Spennymoor”
  • Japanese: “スペニーモーア”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಪೆನಿಮೂರ್”
  • Korean: “스펜니모어”
  • Lithuanian: “Spenimuras”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Spennymoor”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Spennymoor”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Spennymoor”
  • Persian: “اسپنیمور”
  • Polish: “Spennymoor”
  • Portuguese: “Spennymoor”
  • Romanian: “Spennymoor”
  • Russian: “Спеннимур”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اسپنیمور”
  • Spanish: “Spennymoor”
  • Swedish: “Spennymoor”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்பின்னிமூர்”
  • Telugu: “స్పెన్నిమోర్”
  • Turkish: “Spennymoor”
  • Urdu: “اسپینی مور”
  • Urdu: “سپینی مور”
  • Volapük: “Spennymoor”
  • Welsh: “Spennymoor”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Spennymoor”. Photo: Oneill05 oneill, CC BY-SA 4.0.