Billy Row
Built-up area in County Durham, England
| Coordinates: | 54.732, -1.745 |
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| OS grid ref: | NZ 16 37 |
| Dialling code: | 01388 (Bishop Auckland) |
Billy Row is a small village in County Durham in North East England, lying a short distance from the market towns of Crook and Bishop Auckland. It grew up as part of the Durham coalfield and its 19th- and early-20th-century housing and community life were shaped by mining and related industries.
Today Billy Row is a quiet, largely residential community set against the region’s rolling farmland and moorland, with traces of its industrial past still visible in local architecture and memorials. Like many former pit villages it combines a strong local identity and community activity with commuting to nearby towns for work, and retains a modest mix of shops, a village hall and sporting or social clubs that reflect its continuing social ties.
Postcode districts covering Billy Row
Most populated places nearby
- Newcastle upon Tyne 18.9 miles30.4 km
- Sunderland 17.3 miles27.9 km
- Middlesbrough 24.2 miles39 km
- Darlington 15.8 miles25.4 km
- Hartlepool 21.7 miles34.8 km
- South Shields 21.5 miles34.6 km
- Stockton-on-Tees 20.2 miles32.5 km
- Gateshead 15.7 miles25.3 km
- Washington 14.9 miles23.9 km
- Durham 7.9 miles12.7 km
- Wallsend 20.6 miles33.1 km
- Newburn 17.3 miles27.9 km
Neighbouring places
- Crook Built-up area 1.4 miles2.2 km
- Hedleyhope Parish 2.4 miles3.9 km
- Greater Willington Parish 2.5 miles4 km
- Howden-le-Wear Built-up area 2.6 miles4.2 km
- Willington Built-up area 2.7 miles4.4 km
- Cornsay Parish 3 miles4.8 km
- Deerness Ward 3 miles4.8 km
- Brancepeth Parish 3 miles4.8 km
- Esh Winning Built-up area 3.1 miles5 km
- Tow Law Built-up area 3.2 miles5.1 km
- Willington and Hunwick Ward 3.2 miles5.1 km
- Hunwick Built-up area 3.3 miles5.3 km
Example postcodes in Billy Row
DL15 9UE, DL15 9QX, DL15 9TQ, DL15 9TJ, DL15 9SW, DL15 9TH, DL15 9UG, DL15 9QW, DL15 9QP … See all
Transport links
- Durham Tees Valley Airport 19.9 miles32 km
- Newcastle International Airport 21.2 miles34.1 km
- Wolsingham Rail Station 5.6 miles9 km
- Bishop Auckland Railway Station 5.8 miles9.4 km
Hotels near Billy Row Ad
- Thomas Wright House 4.2 miles6.7 km
- The Fir Tree Country Hotel 2.5 miles4 km
- The Brown Horse Hotel 4.2 miles6.7 km
- Farnley Tower Guesthouse 4 6.8 miles10.9 km
- Park Head Hotel 3 6 miles9.6 km
- The Bay Horse Hotel Wolsingham 3 5.4 miles8.7 km
- Hotel Indigo Durham 4 7.5 miles12.2 km
- Manor House Hotel 4 7 miles11.3 km
- Radisson Blu Hotel Durham 4 7.5 miles12 km
- Super 8 by Wyndham Durham 3 8.9 miles14.2 km
Schools in Billy Row
- Peases West Academy Primary
Local points of interest
- University of Durham University 7 miles11.2 km
- Windlestone Country house 8.1 miles13 km
- Raby Castle Archaeological site 10 miles16.1 km
- Beamish Museum Museum 10.6 miles17.1 km
- Streatlam Castle Estate 12.4 miles20 km
- Sedgefield racecourse Recreation 12.6 miles20.3 km
- Dunkeld Close Estate 13.1 miles21 km
- Ravensworth Estate 14.2 miles22.8 km
- Old Park Country house 14.9 miles24 km
- Eggleston Abbey Archaeological site 15.4 miles24.8 km
- Life Science Musuem Museum 17 miles27.4 km
- Discovery Museum Museum 17 miles27.4 km