Traditional county: County Durham · Region: North East
Explore High Escomb, County Durham with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the High Escomb map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
| Place | High Escomb |
| Traditional County | County Durham |
| Region | North East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 54.662049 |
| Longitude | -1.710820 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
High Escomb stands as a quiet contemplation of County Durham’s rural heart. It lies 2.1 km west of Bishop Auckland (from Bishop Auckland: bearing 264°T, OS grid NZ 187 297), and is situated south-south-west of Escomb village. The hamlet’s modest collection of dwellings seems to gather itself against the gentle slope of the land, where fields, stitched with hedgerows, unfurl towards the horizon. Sunlight often catches the stone walls of the houses, giving them a warm, aged glow, and the air here carries the clean scent of damp earth and distant livestock. The quietude of High Escomb is broken only by the murmur of the wind or the distant bleating of sheep, a sound that has echoed across this landscape for generations.
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Explore High Escomb, County Durham, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 54.662049, -1.710820. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | June 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |