Ferryhill (GB)

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Sedgefield is a market town and civil parish in County Durham, England. It had a population of 5,211 as at the 2011 census.

It has the only operating racecourse in County Durham.

A Roman 'ladder settlement' was discovered by Channel Four's Time Team programme in 2003, in fields just to the west of Sedgefield. It consisted of rows of parallel crofts and workshops on either side of a north–south trackway, creating a ladder-like layout, which could be securely dated by the many finds of Roman coins.

During the 1800s, it was a hunting centre, dubbed 'the Melton of the North'.

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Ferryhill (GB)

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Sedgefield

Sedgefield, Ferryhill

Ferryhill is a town in County Durham, England, with an estimated population in 2018 of 9,362. The town grew in the 1900s around the coal mining industry. The last mine officially closed in 1968. Historically the Post Office at Sedgefield came under Ferryhill Post Office. Sedgefield was issued with the H47 Post office numeral after 1887 but was not itself a postal town and reverted to coming under Ferryhill once again in the 1900's