Coundon
Coundon is an old mining village and former civil parish in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England.
Coundon is an old mining village and former civil parish in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England. The Boldon Book mentions a mine in Coundon in the twelfth century. In 2001 it had a population of 2611. In 2011 the ward had a population of 7139.
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Worth seeing in and around Coundon
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Hackworth Park
Hackworth Park is a park in Shildon, County Durham, England. It was named after Timothy Hackworth, a railway pioneer from the town.
3.8 km · park · Wikipedia
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Getting to Coundon
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 42 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 89 km · Manchester (MAN), 152 km
- Stations
- Bishop Auckland railway station, 2.9 km · Byers Green railway station, 3.1 km · Bishop Auckland West railway station, 3.2 km
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Coundon35 km · quickest by road, 55 min · £4–5
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Coundon96 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Coundon137 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £17–23
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Coundon
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Coundon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inDFDS operate an overnight ferry between Port of Tyne, North Shields (near Newcastle) and Ijmuiden near Amsterdam.
- Get inSee Newcastle page for how to reach the ferry terminal: in brief, take the train between Durham and Newcastle, then the shuttle bus (£3.80 each way, 30 min) or Metro to the ferry.
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Next door to Coundon
Coundon is 34 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.