Norman Cornish’s House

Norman Cornish’s House is a building in Urpeth, County Durham, England which is located on Front Street. Norman Cornish’s House is situated nearby to the movie theater Grand Cinema, as well as near Bandstand In Town Area, Opposite Ravensworth Terrace.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Beamish Museum and Pockerley Farmhouse.

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 south of Norman Cornish’s House.

Pockerley Farmhouse

House

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Pockerley Farmhouse is situated 1,500 feet southeast of Norman Cornish’s House.

Beamish Hall

Hotel

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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 2,500 feet west of Norman Cornish’s House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beamish and No Place.

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.

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.

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.

Norman Cornish’s House

Type: Building
Address: 2 Front Street
Location: Urpeth, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.88864° or 54° 53′ 19″ north

Longitude

-1.65933° or 1° 39′ 34″ west

Open location code

9C6WV8QR+F7

OpenStreetMap ID

way 753774423

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

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Highlights include Grand Cinema and Bandstand In Town Area, Opposite Ravensworth Terrace.

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