Target Wood
Target Wood is a forest in Urpeth, County Durham, England. Target Wood is situated nearby to the village Urpeth, as well as near Ouston.Places of Interest
Highlights include Beamish Museum and Church of St Paul.
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.
Pelaw Grange
Sports venue
Pelaw Grange Stadium is a Greyhound Board of Great Britain regulated greyhound racing track located at North Lodge in the English county of Durham, between Chester-le-Street and Gateshead.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beamish and Chester-le-Street.
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.
Chester-le-Street
Photo: JohnBlackburne, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chester-le-Street is a town in County Durham, with a population of 23,500 in 2021. It's a commuter town for Newcastle 8 miles north; the main reason to visit is Durham CCC cricket ground, which stages county and international matches.
Washington
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Washington is a town in Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England. It was a small mining village but from 1964 became the core of a planned New Town, with a population of over 67,000 in 2011.
Target Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Urpeth, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.8885° or 54° 53′ 19″ northLongitude
-1.6178° or 1° 37′ 4″ westOpen location code
9C6WV9QJ+9VOpenStreetMap ID
way 156391610OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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