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Villages & towns in County DurhamCounty Durham, England

18 villages and towns in the Albion Guide across County Durham — see the full villages and towns directory, or everything to explore in County Durham.

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Durham

A cathedral city looped by the River Wear, its Norman cathedral and castle rising together above the wooded riverbanks and cobbled Bailey.

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Barnard Castle

A Teesdale market town of steep streets below its ruined Norman castle, with the extraordinary French-château Bowes Museum on its edge.

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Bishop Auckland

A County Durham market town gathered around Auckland Castle, the palace of the Prince Bishops, and now the Kynren night spectacle and the Faith Museum.

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Romaldkirk

Teesdale village of three greens with stocks, a pump and a large church, the Rose & Crown at its heart.

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Cotherstone

Stone village at the meeting of the Tees and Balder, famous for its crumbly Cotherstone cheese.

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Escomb

Small village near Bishop Auckland built around one of the most complete Saxon churches in England.

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Gainford

Once called the Queen of Durham villages, its flowered green ringed by 18th- and 19th-century houses above the River Tees.

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Middleton-in-Teesdale

Capital of the upper dale, a former lead-mining town of Quaker terraces and a base for the High Force walks.

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Staindrop

Long Durham village strung along a wide green, Georgian frontages and a Saxon-founded church at the gates of Raby Castle's deer park.

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Whorlton

Village above the wooded Tees gorge, reached by a rare early chain suspension bridge of 1831.

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Brancepeth

Estate village of neat stone houses gathered by its restored castle and the church of St Brandon.

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Piercebridge

Village set inside the outline of a Roman fort where Dere Street crossed the Tees.

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Stanhope

Capital of Weardale, a market town with a ford and stepping stones across the Wear and a fossil tree in the churchyard.

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Chester-le-Street

Market town on the Wear with a Saturday market, an anchorage cell at its church and the Riverside cricket ground.

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Edmundbyers

Moorland village on the edge of Derwent Reservoir with a small pre-Norman church of St Edmund.

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St John's Chapel

Upper Weardale village of stone terraces with a small Georgian town hall, deep in the North Pennines.

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Winston

Village perched above the Tees with wide valley views and a long single-span Georgian bridge.

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Wolsingham

Weardale market town where the Wear meets the Waskerley, one of the dale's oldest settlements.

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