Folly Wood
Folly Wood is a forest in Stanley, County Durham, England. Folly Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Tanfield, as well as near the village Sleepy Valley.Places of Interest
Highlights include Beamish Museum and Church of St Andrew.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beamish and Stanley.
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.
Stanley
Town
Photo: Alan Fearon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stanley is a town and civil parish in County Durham, England. Centred on a hilltop between Chester-le-Street and Consett, it lies south-west of Gateshead.
Rowlands Gill
Village
Rowlands Gill is a village on the north bank of the River Derwent, in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. The Gibside Estate is near the town.
Folly Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Stanley, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.8962° or 54° 53′ 47″ northLongitude
-1.7051° or 1° 42′ 18″ westOpen location code
9C6WV7WV+FXOpenStreetMap ID
way 152145194OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=forest
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