Facts about County Durham

Durham is located to the North East of England.

Barnard Castle , is a town that has associations with Charles Dickens, Beamish , home to the first open air museum in the UK which attracts around 340,000 visitors a year, Bishop Auckland , home of the magnificent Castle of Auckland' and also the place the famous Stan Laurel' attended grammar school, Brandon , a coal mining village until 1968, Castleside , a small village in the parish of Lanchester, Chester-le-Street, a great town for shopping, Consett, a small town close to the River Derwent, Crook , a busy market town and the administrative centre of the Wear Valley District, Darlington , the birthplace of railways, Durham , a city well known for its university and magnificent Cathedral and Castle, a place where we have carried out many residential and commercial building surveys, Easington , where the film Billy Elliot' was mainly filmed, Hartlepool , a coastal town that was once the busiest port on the east coast , Lanchester , a charming village in County Durham, a delightful place to visit and carry out building surveys, Newton Aycliffe , the first new town' in Northern England, Peterlee , a town built on the site of a deserted medieval village, Rushyford , a village known for its wild deer and other game, Seaham , a coastal town who in 2002 won the Outstanding Achievement in Regeneration Award', Sedgefield , best known for being the constituency of Tony Blair', the former British Prime Minister, Shildon , a town full of railway history, Stanley , where in 1909 over 160 people where killed in one of the worst coal mining disasters in British history.

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