People Buried in County Durham

Historical County of England

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GRAVE LOCATION FOR HOLDERS OF THE VICTORIA CROSS IN : CO DURHAM

List of Towns

The following list will probably need refining as not all places have cemeteries

Names with Bold links are to Geni profiles or projects. Other links take you to external biographical web pages

A

• Allendale Cottages
• Allensford
• Annfield Plain
• Auckland Park
• Aycliffe Village

B

• Barforth
• Barnard Castle

• St. Mary
  

• Barningham
• Bearpark
• Beechburn
• Belmont

• Church of St Mary Magdalene
  

• Benfieldside
• Bildershaw
• Billingham

• St Cuthbert's
  
• St. Luke's
  
• St. Mary Magdalene,
  
• St. Aidan's
  
• St. Peter's
  

• Billy Row
• Binchester
• Birtley
• Bishop Auckland
• Bishop Middleham
• Bishopton

• St Peter's Church
  

• Bitchburn
• Blackhall
• Blackhall Rocks,
• Blackhill
• Blackhouse
• Boldron
• Bournmoor
• Bowburn
• Bowes
• Bradbury
• Brancepeth
• Brandon
• Bridgehill
• Brignall

• St Mary's Church
  

• Broompark
• Browney
• Brusselton
• Burnhope
• Burnopfield
• Burnt Houses
• Butterknowle
• Byers Green

C

• Carlton

• Carlton Methodist Church
  

• Cassop
• Castle Eden
• Castle Dene
• Castleside
• Catchgate
• Chester Moor
• Chester-le-Street
• Chilton
• Chilton Lane
• Cleatlam
• Close House
• Cockerton

• St. Mary's C of E
  
• Holy Family Roman Catholic
  
• Cockerton Methodist Church
  

• Cockfield
• Cold Hesledon
• Consett
• Copelaw - Aycliffe
• Copley
• Cornforth Lane
• Coronation
• Cornsay Colliery
• Cotherstone
• Coundon
• Coundon Grange
• Coundongate
• Cowshill
• Coxhoe
• Craghead

• St. Thomas's Churchyard
  

• Michael Wilson Heaviside VC WIKI
  

• Crimdon Dene
• Crook
• Crookhall
• Croxdale

D

• Daddry Shield
• Dalton-le-Dale
• Darlington

• North Road Municipal Cemetery
  

• Michael Murphy VC WIKI
  

• St Andrew's Church
  
• St Cuthbert's Church
  

• Dawdon

• St Hild and St Helen's - known as the Pitman's Cathedral
  

• Deaf Hill
• Delves Lane
• Denton

• St. Mary's Church
  

... an ancient stone coffin was discovered, supposed to be that of a Knight Templar, and later a cover of Frosterley marble of the same shape, and about the same size, with a sculptured figure of a female carved upon it, was also found. The following inscription in Lombardian French runs round the cover, Hic gist Aubrey de Coynners sa compayn - Here lies the wife of Aubrey de Conyers.

• Dipton
• Durham

• Durham Cathedral
  

• George Stephen Kemble (21 April 1758 – 5 June 1822) English theatre manager, actor, and writer; member of the famous Kemble family.
  

• Durham City Crematorium
  

• Robert Wallace Annand VC
  

• St. Cuthbert's Catholic Church, Durham
  
• St Giles Church, Gilesgate
  
• St Margaret of Antioch, Crossgate
  
• St Oswald's Church
  

E

• Earls House
• Easington Colliery
• Easington Village
• East Hetton
• East Hedleyhope
• East Howle
• East Law
• East Stanley

• St. Andrew's Church, Stanley
  

• Eastgate
• Ebchester
• Edmondsley
• Edmundbyers
• Egglesburn

• Egglesburn Baptist Chapel
  

• Egglescliffe

• St John the Baptist
  

• Eggleston
• Eldon
• Eldon Lane
• Elstob
• Elton

• Church of St John the Baptist
  

• Elwick

• St. Peter's Church
  

• Embleton
• Escomb
• Esh Village
• Esh Winning
• Etherley
• Evenwood

F

• Fencehouses
• Ferryhill
• Fir Tree
• Fishburn
• Fleming Field
• Foxton & Shotton
• Frosterley

G

• Gainford
• Gilesgate

• St. Giles Church
  

• Gilmonby
• Grange Villa
• Great Lumley
• Greatham

• St. John the Baptist
  

• Greencroft
• Grindon

• St. Thomas of Canterbury (remains)
  
• Church of Holy Trinity
  

• Gurney Valley

H

• Hamsterley
• Hamsterley Colliery
• Hamsterley Mill
• Harelaw
• Harperley
• Hart

• St. Mary Magdalane Church, Hart.
  

• Hartburn

• All Saints Church
  

• Hartlepool

• Christ Church
  
• St Hilda's Church
  

• Haswell
• Haswell Plough
• Haughton-le-Skerne

• St Andrew's Church
  

• Hawthorn
• Healeyfield
• Heighington

• St. Michael's Church
  

• Helmington Row
• Hesleden
• Hett
• High Coniscliffe

• St Edwin's church
  
• St Oswald's church
  

• High Etherley

• St. Cuthbert's church, High Etherley
  

• High Grange
• High Handenhold
• High Hesledon
• High Span

• St. Patrick's Cemetery
  

• Thomas Young VC WIKI
  

• High Westwood
• Holwick
• Horden
• Horsleyhope
• Hotts
• Howden-le-Wear
• Hunderthwaite
• Hunstanworth
• Hunwick
• Hurworth-on-Tees

• Methodist Church
  

• Hutton Henry
• Hutton Magna

I

• Ingleton
• Ireshopeburn
• Iveston

K

• Kelloe
• Kelloe Winning
• Kimblesworth, (up to 1974)
• Kirk Merrington
• Knitsley

L

• Laithkirk
• Lanchester
• Lands
• Langley Moor
• Langley Park
• Langton
• Lartington
• Leadgate
• Leamside
• Leasingthorne
• Leeholme
• Littletown
• Longnewton

• St. Mary's Church
  

• Low Dinsdale

• St John the Baptist
  

• Low Westwood
• Ludworth
• Lunedale
• Lynesack

M

• Maiden Law
• Mainsforth
• Marley Hill

• St. Cuthbert's Church, Marley Hill
  

• Marwood
• Meadowfield
• Medomsley

• St Mary Magdalene
  

• Metal Bridge
• Mickleton
• Middlestone Moor
• Middleton-in-Teesdale
• Middridge
• Milkwell Burn
• Monk Hesleden
• Moorside
• Morden
• Morley
• Muggleswick
• Murton
• Monkwearmouth

• St Peter's Church
  

N

• Nettlesworth
• New Brancepeth
• New Kyo
• Newbiggin in Teesdale
• Newfield
• Newton Aycliffe
• No Place

• 'Tin Chapel'
  

• North Bitchburn
• North Close
• Norton

• St. Mary the Virgin
  

O

• Oakenshaw
• Old Cornforth
• Old Kelloe
• Old Shotton
• Ouston
• Ovington
• Owton Manor

• St James Church of England,
  
• St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church
  
• Owton Manor Baptist Church
  

• Oxhill

P

• Page Bank
• Pelton
• Pelton Lane Ends
• Pelton Fell
• Perkinsville
• Peterlee
• Phoenix Row
• Pickering Nook
• Picktree (part)
• Piercebridge

• St Mary's Church, Piercebridge
  

115 extant memorials and burials from 1836 to 1987

• Pittington
• Pity Me
• Plawsworth
• Preston-on-Tees

• All Saints
  
• Eaglescliffe Trinity Methodist Church
  

Q

• Quaking Houses
• Quarrington Hill
• Quebec

R

• Rainton Gate
• Ramshaw
• Redmarshall

• Church of Saint Cuthbert
  

• Roddymoor
• Romaldkirk
• Rookhope
• Roseworth,
• Rowley
• Royal Oak,
• Ruffside
• Rushyford

S

• Sacriston
• Sadberge

• St. Andrew's Church
  

• St Helen Auckland

• Church of St Helen, St Helen Auckland
  

• Satley
• School Aycliffe
• Seaham
  
• Seaham Harbour

• Princess Road Cemetery
  

• Charles Anderson VC WIKI
  

• Seaton Carew

• Holy Trinity Church
  

• Sedgefield

• Sedgefield, St. Edmund Churchyard
  

• Shadforth
• Sheep Hill

• St. Jame's
  

• Sheraton
• Sherburn
• Sherburn Hill
• Shield Row
• Shildon
• Shincliffe

• St. Mary
  

• Shiney Row
• Shotley Bridge
• Shotton
• Shotton Village
• Shotton Colliery
• South Moor Hospital
• South Church
• South Hetton
• South Moor

• St. George's
  

• South Wingate

• Wheatley Hill Cemetery
  

• Thomas Kenny VC WIKI
  

• Spennymoor

• Merrington Church
  
• St. Charles' Church
  
• St. Paul's Church
  

• Spring Gardens
• St. Helens Auckland
• St. Johns Chapel
• Staindrop

• Staindrop Friends Burial Ground or Cemetery
  
• Staindrop, St. Mary
  

• 1 Monument - Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland (1425) and two wives. Alabaster
  

• Staindrop, St. Mary Churchyard
  

• Stainton
• Stanhope
• Stanley
• Stanley Crook
• Startforth

• Startforth, Holy Trinity Churchyard
  

• Station Town
• Stillington
• Stony Heap
• Sunderland Bridge
• Sunniside,(Crook)
• Sunny Brow Sunderland

T

• Tanfield

• St. Margaret of Antioch
  

• Tanfield Lea

Methodist Church

• Tantobie
• Templetown
• Thinford
• Thornley
• Thornley Village
• Thorpe Thewles

• St. Jame's Church
  

• Todhills
• Toft Hill
• Toronto
• Tow Law
• Town Kelloe
• Trimdon

• Saint Mary Magdalene church
  

• Trindon Foundry
• Trimdon Colliery
• Trimdon Grange
• Trimdon Station
• Tudhoe

U

• Urpeth
• Ushaw Moor
• Ushaw College

W

• Wackerfield
• Waldridge Fell
• Waskerley
• Waterhouses
• Wearhead
• Wear Valley Junction
• West Auckland
• West Cornforth,
• West Pelton
• West Rainton
• Westgate,
• Wharnley Burn
• Wheatbottom
• Wheatley Hill
• White-le-Head
• Whitworth
• Whorlton
• Willington
• Windlestone
• Wingate

• Holy Trinity Church, Wingate
  

• Windmill
• Winston
• Witton Gilbert (pre-1938)
• Witton Park
• Witton-le-Wear
• Wolsingham
• Wolviston

• St. Peter's Church
  

• Woodham
• Woodhouses
• Woodland
• Wycliffe

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