Quoits Pitches
Quoits Pitches is a pitch in Urpeth, County Durham, England. Quoits Pitches is situated nearby to Pit Hill Methodist Chapel, as well as near the meadow Boggy Close.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Beamish Museum and Winding Engine House And Boiler House At The Colliery.
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. Beamish Museum is situated 1,100 feet northeast of Quoits Pitches.
Winding Engine House And Boiler House At The Colliery
Industrial building
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Winding Engine House And Boiler House At The Colliery is an industrial building, which is situated 820 feet east of Quoits Pitches.
Beamish Hall
Hotel
Photo: Bluespacecat, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beamish Hall is a mid-18th-century country house, now converted to a hotel, which stands in 24 acres of grounds near the town of Stanley, County Durham. It is a Grade II* listed building. Beamish Hall is situated 2,400 feet northwest of Quoits Pitches.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include No Place and Beamish.
No Place
Village
No Place is a small village near the town of Stanley in County Durham, England, east of Stanley and west of Beamish. Situated to the south of the A693, it is home to an award-winning real ale pub, the Beamish Mary Inn, and lies near the Beamish Mary coal pit.
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.
Kip Hill
Hamlet
Kip Hill is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated directly to the north of Stanley, near Shield Row. It has two pubs, the Blue Bell Inn and the Ball Alley* 2The 3rd Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1921 The area was once known as Kiphill but sometime between 1895 and 1898 this changed to the current Kip Hill.
Quoits Pitches
- Type: Pitch
- Categories: recreation area and sports location
- Location: Urpeth, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.88378° or 54° 53′ 2″ northLongitude
-1.66267° or 1° 39′ 46″ westOpen location code
9C6WV8MP+GWOpenStreetMap ID
way 338800636OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=pitchOpenStreetMap feature
sport=quoits
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Quoits Pitches from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pit Hill Methodist Chapel and Boggy Close.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Hetton Silver Band Hall and Pit Village & Colliery.
County Durham: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, and Stockton-on-Tees.
Curious Pitches to Discover
Uncover intriguing pitches from every corner of the globe.