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Durham (/ ˈ d ʌr əm / ⓘ DURR-əm, locally / ˈ d ɜːr əm / listen ⓘ) [a] is a cathedral city and civil parish in the county of Durham, England.It is the county town and contains the headquarters of Durham County Council, the unitary authority which governs the district of County Durham.
English: A map of Modern Northumbria, defined as "an area of north-eastern England comprising Northumberland, Durham, and Tyne and Wear" Date: 14 December 2017:
Description: Map of County Durham, UK with the following information shown: . Administrative borders; Coastline, lakes and rivers; Roads and railways; Urban areas; Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 170%
County Durham, officially simply Durham (/ˈdʌrəm/), [note 1] is a ceremonial county in North East England. [3] The county borders Northumberland and Tyne and Wear to the north, the North Sea to the east, North Yorkshire to the south, and Cumbria to the west.
The DH postcode area, also known as the Durham postcode area, [2] is a group of nine postcode districts in north-east England, within five post towns.These cover northern County Durham (including Durham, Chester-le-Street, Consett and Stanley), parts of southern Tyne and Wear (including Houghton-le-Spring) and a small part of southern Northumberland.
County Durham is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is governed by Durham County Council. [5] The district has an area of 2,226 square kilometres (859 sq mi), and contains 135 civil parishes. [6] It forms part of the larger ceremonial county of Durham, together with boroughs of Darlington, Hartlepool ...
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine the unitary authority of County Durham with the Tyne and Wear boroughs of Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland as a sub-region of the North East Region, with the creation of a cross-county ...
List of civil parishes in County Durham; List of places in England This page was last edited on 9 January 2025, at 02:34 (UTC). Text is available under the ...