Urpeth
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Urpeth is a village in County Durham
, in England
. It is situated a short distance from Ouston
and Beamish
.
Urpeth started its life as a coal mining area with multiple seams of coal being mined from various locations around the current housing estate. Urpeth Colliery was owned by the Birtley Iron Company and during its heyday employed 300 men and boys.
The on site coke ovens produced up to 470 tons of coke each day.
Geographically Urpeth is situated to the west of Ouston and is surrounded by fields and rolling hills. Standing in Urpeth's only play park , one cannot see Ouston as there is a hill which blocks the view.
This hill was formed from the coal spoils from both the Ouston and Urpeth colliery's.
The hill provides local children with an excellent area for sledging during winter and dog walkers throughout the year.
There are currently two main businesses ran within Urpeth which is the "Spar" Newsagents and The Brooms pub.
Urpeth was once host to a controversial landfill site to the south west of its main location. The site was used for the disposal of low level radioactive waste along with 3 other sites at Kibblesworth, Ryton and Cowpen Bewleyhttp://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1994/dec/01/nuclear-waste. However since the late 90's the site was closed and a methane burner sits on the site.
County Durham
County Durham is a ceremonial county and unitary district in north east England. The county town is Durham. The largest settlement in the ceremonial county is the town of Darlington...
, in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It is situated a short distance from Ouston
Ouston, County Durham
Ouston is a village in County Durham, approximately 5 miles to the south-west of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England...
and Beamish
Beamish, County Durham
Beamish, previously named 'Pit Hill', is a village in County Durham, England situated to the north east of Stanley.The village is contained within Hell Hole Wood and is home to Beamish Museum, an open-air museum seeking to replicate a northern town of the early 20th century...
.
Urpeth started its life as a coal mining area with multiple seams of coal being mined from various locations around the current housing estate. Urpeth Colliery was owned by the Birtley Iron Company and during its heyday employed 300 men and boys.
The on site coke ovens produced up to 470 tons of coke each day.
Geographically Urpeth is situated to the west of Ouston and is surrounded by fields and rolling hills. Standing in Urpeth's only play park , one cannot see Ouston as there is a hill which blocks the view.
This hill was formed from the coal spoils from both the Ouston and Urpeth colliery's.
The hill provides local children with an excellent area for sledging during winter and dog walkers throughout the year.
There are currently two main businesses ran within Urpeth which is the "Spar" Newsagents and The Brooms pub.
Urpeth was once host to a controversial landfill site to the south west of its main location. The site was used for the disposal of low level radioactive waste along with 3 other sites at Kibblesworth, Ryton and Cowpen Bewleyhttp://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1994/dec/01/nuclear-waste. However since the late 90's the site was closed and a methane burner sits on the site.