Observatory Cottage

Observatory Cottage is an university building in , , . Observatory Cottage is situated nearby to the university building , as well as near the scenic viewpoint .

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Durham University Observatory and Durham School.

University building
Photo: Teach46, CC BY 3.0.
The is a weather owned and operated by the University of Durham. It is a Grade II listed building located at Potters Bank, Durham and was founded in 1839 initially as an astronomical and meteorological observatory by Temple Chevallier, until 1937 when the observatory moved purely to meteorological recording.

School
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is a fee-charging boarding and day school in the English public school tradition located in , . Since 2021 it has been part of the Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation. is situated 770 feet north of Observatory Cottage.

Museum
The Oriental Museum, formerly the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, is a museum of the University of Durham in . The museum has a collection of more than 23,500 , Egyptian, , , and other Far East and artefacts. is situated 1,800 feet southeast of Observatory Cottage.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Neville’s Cross and Crossgate.

Suburb
Neville's Cross is a place in the civil parish of the City of Durham, in , England. It is also a ward of with a population taken at the 2011 census of 9,940.

Suburb
Photo: John Sutton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small area of housing that sits above North Road but below the area of , in , England. It is predominantly occupied by students at Durham University who favour the area due to its proximity to the university departments in the and areas of the city.

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is a city in in North East . The name is believed to derive from "Dun-holme", or hill-island, due to its location on a meander on the River Wear.

Observatory Cottage

Latitude
54.76806° or 54° 46′ 5″ north
Longitude
-1.58555° or 1° 35′ 8″ west
Open location code
9C6WQC97+6Q
Open­Street­Map ID
way 28543276
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­university
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