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Fishburn
Fishburn is a village and civil parish in County Durham, in England. It is situated about 12 miles (19 km) west of Hartlepool. The population was 2,454, increasing to 2,588 at the 2011 Census.
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Fishburn Grassland
Fishburn Grassland is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham, England. It lies between the villages of Fishburn and Trimdon, just north of the former.
The site consists of a small area of species-rich magnesian limestone grassland, a vegetation type that is rare nationally and mainly restricted to County Durham and Tyne and Wear. There are two distinct plant communities, the larger of which, dominated by blue moor-grass, Sesleria albicans, and small scabious, Scabiosa columbaria, is known only from east Durham. The other community, dominated by upright brome, Bromus erectus, is common on limestone in southern England but is at its northern limit in Durham, where there are no other protected sites.
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Winterton Hospital
Winterton Hospital was a psychiatric hospital north of Sedgefield in County Durham, England.
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NETPark
NETPark, or the North East Technology Park, is a British science park in Sedgefield, Durham. It is owned by Durham County Council and run by Business Durham, the business support service of the council, with strategic partners Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) and Durham University.
NETPark hosts three national catapult centres: CPI was a founding partner of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult in 2011 and are joined by the North East Centre of Excellence for Satellite Applications and the Space Enterprise Lab NETPark, part of the Satellite Applications Catapult, and the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult North East. CPI also manages three national innovation centres at NETPark: the National Formulation Centre, the National Printable Electronics Centre and the National Healthcare Photonics Centre. It is also home to Orbit, Durham University's enterprise zone, and the university's Centre for Advanced Instrumentation.
NETPark was opened in 2004 by the local Member of Parliament for Sedgefield and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair.
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Fishburn Airfield
Fishburn Airfield is a small grass strip airfield in Fishburn, County Durham.
The airfield was opened on 30 June 1995 by the then local MP and Leader of the Opposition Tony Blair. It was named as "Airfield of the year" by aviation magazine Flyer in 2004 for its welcoming atmosphere and bacon butties.
In 2005, the airfield hosted filming for a scene from the Bollywood film Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors