Urpeth

This article is about the village in County Durham. For the nearby village with a similar name, see High Urpeth. For the steam locomotive builder, see John Urpeth Rastrick.

Urpeth Grange Estate

Urpeth (Urpeth Grange) is a village in County Durham, England. ^[1] It is situated a short distance from Ouston and Beamish, near the border with Tyne and Wear. The parish population taken at the 2011 census was 3,630. ^[2]

Urpeth was once host to a controversial landfill site to the south west of its main location. The site was used for the disposal of low level radioactive waste along with three other sites at Kibblesworth, Ryton and Cowpen Bewley. ^[3] In the late 1990s, the site was closed and a methane burner sits on the site.^{[ citation needed ]}

54°52′52″N1°37′52″W / 54.88111°N 1.63111°W / 54.88111; -1.63111

References

1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 88 Newcastle upon Tyne (Durham & Sunderland) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN   9780319229989.
2. "Parish population 2011". Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
3. "Hansard: Written Answers 1 December 1994 - Nuclear Waste". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) . 1 December 1994. Retrieved 9 April 2016.