Kirknewton

Kirknewton is an university building in County Durham, North East England, England. Kirknewton is situated nearby to the peak The Mound, as well as near the university Josephine Butler College.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Durham University Oriental Museum and Durham High School for Girls.

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. Durham University Oriental Museum is situated 1,600 feet north of Kirknewton.

Durham High School for Girls

School

Durham High School is a coeducational independent day school for children aged 3 to 18 years old in Durham, United Kingdom. Until September 2025 it was a single-sex school for girls. Durham High School for Girls is situated 2,000 feet southwest of Kirknewton.

Mount Oswald

Building

Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mount Oswald is a manor house in Durham, County Durham, England. The house, which is now Durham County Council's The Story museum, is a Grade II listed building. Mount Oswald is situated 1,600 feet west of Kirknewton.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Houghall and Neville’s Cross.

Houghall

Hamlet

Photo: boyward, CC BY 3.0.

Houghall is a hamlet in County Durham, in England. It is situated approximately 1.5 miles to the south of Durham city centre. It is also the location of the Houghall Campus of East Durham College, associated gardens, a small number of houses and a restaurant.

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.

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.

Kirknewton

Type: University building
Categories: building and education
Location: County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.75968° or 54° 45′ 35″ north

Longitude

-1.57851° or 1° 34′ 43″ west

Open location code

9C6WQC5C+VH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 10507023

OpenStreetMap feature

building=university

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