Bearpark

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Coordinates: 54°46′56″N 1°37′48″W / 54.782222°N 1.630000°W / 54.782222; -1.630000

Bearpark
The centre of Bearpark village
Bearpark Bearpark shown within County Durham
Population	1,946 (2001 Census)
OS grid reference	NZ238431
Unitary authority	County Durham
Ceremonial county	County Durham
Region	North East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	DURHAM
Postcode district	DH7
Dialling code	0191
Police	Durham
Fire	County Durham and Darlington
Ambulance	North East
EU Parliament	North East England
UK Parliament	City of Durham
List of places: UK • England • County Durham

Bearpark is a village and civil parish in County Durham in England. It is situated two and a half miles west of Durham, and a short distance to the north of Ushaw Moor. The name may be a corruption of the French term Beau Repaire - meaning "beautiful retreat". Half a mile to the north of the present village lies the ruins of Beaurepaire Priory, built in the 13th century by monks from Durham Cathedral. Bearpark later became a coal mining village until 1984, when the mine was closed.

Bearpark Community centre is at the hub of the local village, a great red brick building, originally built in 1921 as a miners welfare hall.

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v d e Civil parishes in County Durham

including Stockton on Tees (north of the river)

Darlington	Parishes: Archdeacon Newton • Barmpton • Bishopton • Brafferton • Coatham Mundeville • Denton • East and West Newbiggin • Great Burdon • Great Stainton • Heighington • High Coniscliffe • Houghton le Side • Hurworth • Killerby • Little Stainton • Low Coniscliffe and Merrybent • Low Dinsdale • Middleton St George • Morton Palms • Neasham • Piercebridge • Sadberge • Sockburn • Summerhouse • Walworth • Whessoe Unparished areas: The former Darlington County Borough

Durham	Towns: Barnard Castle • Bishop Auckland • Chilton • Ferryhill • Great Aycliffe • Greater Willington • Peterlee • Seaham • Sedgefield • Shildon • Spennymoor • Stanley • Tow Law Parishes: Barforth • Barningham • Bearpark • Belmont • Bishop Middleham • Bolam • Boldron • Bournmoor • Bowes • Bradbury and the Isle • Brancepeth • Brandon and Byshottles • Brignall • Burnhope • Cassop cum Quarrington • Castle Eden • Cleatlam • Cockfield • Cornforth • Cornsay • Cotherstone • Coxhoe • Croxdale and Hett • Dalton le Dale • Dene Valley • Easington Colliery • Easington Village • Edmondbyers • Edmondsley • Eggleston • Egglestone Abbey • Eldon • Esh • Etherley • Evenwood and Barony • Fishburn • Forest and Frith • Framwellgate Moor • Gainford • Gilmonby • Great Lumley • Greencroft • Hamsterley • Hamsterley Common • Haswell • Hawthorn • Headlam • Healeyfield • Hedleyhope • Hilton • Holwick • Hope • Horden • Hunderthwaite • Hunstanworth • Hutton Henry • Hutton Magna • Ingleton • Kelloe • Kimblesworth and Plawsworth • Lanchester • Langleydale and Shotton • Langton • Lartington • Little Lumley • Lunedale • Lynesack and Softley • Marwood • Mickleton • Middleton in Teesdale • Middridge • Monk Hesleden • Mordon • Morton Tinmouth • Muggleswick • Murton • Nesbitt • Newbiggin • North Lodge • Ouston • Ovington • Pelton • Pittington • Raby with Keverstone • Rokeby • Romaldkirk • Sacriston • Satley • Scargill • Seaton with Slingley • Shadforth • Sheraton with Hulam • Sherburn Village • Shincliffe • Shotton • South Bedburn • South Hetton • Staindrop • Stanhope • Startforth • Streatlam and Stainton • Thornley • Trimdon • Trimdon Foundry • Urpeth • Waldridge • Wackerfield • Weather Hill Wood • West Auckland • West Rainton • Westwick • Wheatley Hill • Whorlton • Windlestone • Wingate • Winston • Witton Gilbert • Witton le Wear • Wolsingham • Wolsingham Park Moor • Woodland • Wycliffe with Thorpe Unparished areas: The former Chester le Street Urban District • Consett • Durham Municipal Borough • Parts of the former Bishop Auckland Urban District • Crook and Willington Urban District • Stanley Urban District

Hartlepool	Towns: Headland Parishes: Brierton • Claxton • Dalton Piercy • Elwick • Greatham • Hart • Newton Bewley Unparished areas: Part of the former Hartlepool County Borough

Stockton on Tees	Towns: Billingham Parishes: Aislaby • Carlton • Egglescliffe • Elton • Grindon • Longnewton • Newsham • Preston on Tees • Redmarshall • Stillington and Whitton • Wolviston Unparished areas: Part of the former Teesside County Borough

For further information about the above parishes, see List of civil parishes in County Durham. For the part of Stockton-on-Tees (borough) south of the River Tees, see List of civil parishes in North Yorkshire.