North Durham Academy

North Durham Academy is a secondary school with academy status based in Stanley in County Durham, England. The school was formed in September 2011, when Greencroft Business and Enterprise Community School and Stanley School of Technology formally merged.

Type: School
Description: school in Durham, UK
Address: High Street, South Stanley, Stanley, DH9 0TW

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of St Andrew and Derwentside Area Council Offices.

Church of St Andrew

Church

Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church of St Andrew is situated 1,400 feet northwest of North Durham Academy.

Derwentside Area Council Offices

Building

Photo: Graham Robson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Derwentside Area Council Offices is a building, which is situated 1,700 feet west of North Durham Academy.

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 1½ miles northeast of North Durham Academy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stanley and Kip Hill.

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.

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.

Oxhill

Hamlet

Oxhill is a small village in the civil parish of Stanley, in County Durham, England. It is located to the west of Stanley, on the bottom of the hill which leads up to New Kyo and Annfield Plain to its east.