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 miles
- Sunderland 17.3 miles
- Middlesbrough 24.2 miles
- Darlington 15.8 miles
- Hartlepool 21.7 miles
- South Shields 21.5 miles
- Stockton-on-Tees 20.2 miles
- Gateshead 15.7 miles
- Washington 14.9 miles
- Durham 7.9 miles
- Wallsend 20.6 miles
- Newburn 17.3 miles
Neighbouring places
- Crook Built-up area 1.4 miles
- Hedleyhope Parish 2.4 miles
- Greater Willington Parish 2.5 miles
- Howden-le-Wear Built-up area 2.6 miles
- Willington Built-up area 2.7 miles
- Cornsay Parish 3 miles
- Deerness Ward 3 miles
- Brancepeth Parish 3 miles
- Esh Winning Built-up area 3.1 miles
- Tow Law Built-up area 3.2 miles
- Willington and Hunwick Ward 3.2 miles
- Hunwick Built-up area 3.3 miles
Example postcodes in Billy Row
DL15 9UE, DL15 9TF, DL15 9SE, DL15 9TJ, DL15 9SD, DL15 9RX, DL15 9SN, DL15 9QX, DL15 9SR … See all
Transport links
- Durham Tees Valley Airport 19.9 miles
- Newcastle International Airport 21.2 miles
- Wolsingham Rail Station 5.6 miles
- Bishop Auckland Railway Station 5.8 miles
Hotels near Billy Row Ad
- The Royal Oak 3 3.6 miles
- The Fir Tree Country Hotel 2.5 miles
- Thomas Wright House 4.2 miles
- Hotel Indigo Durham 4 7.6 miles
- The Brown Horse Hotel 4.2 miles
- Radisson Blu Hotel Durham 4 7.5 miles
- The Saxon Inn 4 4.8 miles
- The City 7.5 miles
- Super 8 by Wyndham Durham 2.5 8.8 miles
- Park Head Hotel 3 6 miles
Schools in Billy Row
- Peases West Academy Primary
Local points of interest
- University of Durham University 7 miles
- Windlestone Country house 8.1 miles
- Raby Castle Archaeological site 10 miles
- Beamish Museum Museum 10.6 miles
- Streatlam Castle Estate 12.4 miles
- Sedgefield racecourse Recreation 12.6 miles
- Dunkeld Close Estate 13.1 miles
- Ravensworth Estate 14.2 miles
- Old Park Country house 14.9 miles
- Eggleston Abbey Archaeological site 15.4 miles
- Life Science Musuem Museum 17 miles
- Discovery Museum Museum 17 miles