Traditional county: County Durham · Region: North East
Explore Urpeth, County Durham with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Urpeth 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.
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| Place | Urpeth |
| Traditional County | County Durham |
| Region | North East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 54.887248 |
| Longitude | -1.612671 |
| Place Type | Village |
Urpeth commands a quiet prominence over the rolling contours of County Durham, where the earth holds the memory of deep-seam coal extraction. It lies 2.5 miles north-west of Chester-le-Street (from Chester-le-Street: bearing 322°T, OS grid NZ 249 547), and is situated west-north-west of Ouston village. The landscape here is defined by a rhythmic rise and fall of land, leading the eye towards the distant, moody silhouettes of Bog Hill and Weather Hill. Beneath the expansive northern sky, the terrain retains a rugged, industrial character that refuses to be softened by modern artifice. Water plays a vital role in the geography, as the nearby Team Valley funnels the drainage of the plateau into the lower reaches of the landscape. Urpeth retains an atmosphere of stoic endurance, where the quality of light often turns a pale, silvery grey against the dark hedgerows. This persistence of character remains visible in the way the land slopes, indifferent to the passage of time or the fading echoes of the mines. Every path through the fields carries a sense of gravity, grounding the observer in a place where the horizon is always vast and unyielding.
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Explore Urpeth, 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: 54.887248, -1.612671. 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 | August 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. |