Peterlee
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Peterlee is a town in County Durham, England, south of Sunderland, north of Hartlepool, west of the Durham Coast and east of Durham. It gained town status in 1948 under the New Towns Act 1946, which also created the nearby settlements of Newton Aycliffe and Washington, Tyne and Wear.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Peterlee
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Town Centre, Memorial Methodist Church, Apollo Pavilion, Lee House and Essington Way
- UK place.population
- 20,300
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Peterlee
- UK place.unitary_england
- County Durham
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- County Durham
- UK place.region
- North East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Easington
- UK place.post_town
- PETERLEE
- UK place.postcode_district
- SR8
- UK place.postcode_area
- SR
- UK place.dial_code
- 0191
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NZ430409
- UK place.parts_type
- Areas of the town
- UK place.p1
- Easington
- UK place.p2
- Easington Colliery (Town)
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 20164
- Image
- Peterlee towncentre.JPG
- Dialing code
- 0191
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- postal code
- SR8
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- Peterlee
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Peterlee is a town in County Durham, England, south of Sunderland, north of Hartlepool, west of the Durham Coast and east of Durham. It gained town status in 1948 under the New Towns Act 1946, which also created the nearby settlements of Newton Aycliffe and Washington, Tyne and Wear.
==History== The case for founding Peterlee was put forward in Farewell Squalor by Easington Rural District Council Surveyor C. W. Clarke, who also proposed that the town be named after celebrated Durham miners' leader Peter Lee. It is one of the few places in the British Isles named after a recent individual, and unique among post-Second World War new towns in having its existence requested by local people through their MP. A deputation, consisting mostly of working miners, met the Minister of Town and Country Planning to put the case for a new town in the district. The minister, Lewis Silkin, responded by offering a half-size new town of 30,000 residents. The subsequent new residents came largely from surrounding villages in the District of Easington.
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