Dene Academy

Dene Academy is a coeducational secondary school located in Peterlee, County Durham, England. Established in 1962, in November 2012 the school relocated to a new building on the same site.

Type: School
Description: school in Durham, UK
Also known as: “Dene Community School” and “Dene Community School of Technology”
Address: Manor Way, Peterlee, SR8 5RL

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of St Mary the Virgin and Horden railway station.

Church of St Mary the Virgin

Church

Photo: Colin Kinnear, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church of St Mary the Virgin is situated 1,900 feet north of Dene Academy.

Horden railway station

Railway station

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Horden is a railway station on the Durham Coast Line, which runs between Newcastle and Middlesbrough via Hartlepool. The station, situated 10 miles 74 chains south-east of Sunderland, serves the villages of Horden, Blackhall Colliery and Easington along with the town of Peterlee in County Durham, North East England. Horden railway station is situated 2,800 feet northeast of Dene Academy.

Peterlee Community Hospital

Hospital

Peterlee Community Hospital is a health facility in O'Neill Drive, Peterlee, County Durham, England. It is managed by North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust. Peterlee Community Hospital is situated 3,900 feet west of Dene Academy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Horden and Peterlee.

Horden

Village

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Horden is a village and electoral ward in County Durham, England. It is situated on the North Sea coast, to the east of Peterlee, approximately 12 miles south of Sunderland.

Peterlee

Town

Peterlee is a town in County Durham, England, south of Sunderland, north of Hartlepool, west of the Durham Coast and east of Durham. It gained town status in 1948 under the New Towns Act 1946, which also created the nearby settlements of Newton Aycliffe and Washington, Tyne and Wear.