Traditional county: County Durham · Region: North East
Explore New Town, County Durham with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the New Town 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 | New Town |
| Traditional County | County Durham |
| Region | North East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 54.700491 |
| Longitude | -1.627376 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
New Town, a quiet hamlet in County Durham, breathes the gentle air of the North East. It lies 1.5 km west of Spennymoor (from Spennymoor: bearing 281°T, OS grid NZ 241 340). The land here rolls with a subtle grace, the fields often catching the low sun in long, golden swathes, hinting at a life lived in close communion with the earth. Though small, New Town possesses a certain gravity, a sense of enduring presence born from the quiet toil of generations who shaped its modest landscape. There are no grand monuments here, but rather the simple, honest beauty of well-tended gardens and the stoic lines of stone houses that stand against the prevailing winds. The very air seems to carry a faint echo of the past, a whisper of lives lived and stories untold, woven into the quiet tapestry of this unassuming place.
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Explore New Town, 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: 54.700491, -1.627376. 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. |