Traditional county: County Durham · Region: North East
Explore Rowley, County Durham with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Rowley 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 | Rowley |
| Traditional County | County Durham |
| Region | North East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 54.826287 |
| Longitude | -1.865206 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Rowley, a quiet hamlet in County Durham, breathes the subtle scent of damp earth and distant sheep. It lies 3.6 km south-west of Consett (from Consett: bearing 214°T, OS grid NZ 087 479), and is situated south-east of Castleside village. Here, the landscape rolls with a gentle, almost melancholic grace, the fields a patchwork of greens and ochres under a sky that often holds a bruised, contemplative beauty. Though its industrial past may have faded, a certain stoic resilience seems to linger in the very stones of its modest dwellings, a quiet testament to lives lived and work done. The air here carries the faint whisper of the moors, a vastness that stretches beyond the immediate horizon, imbuing Rowley with a sense of both rootedness and distant possibility.
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Explore Rowley, 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: 54.826287, -1.865206. 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. |