Quebec, County Durham
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'''Quebec''' is a small village in [[County Durham]], in the [[North East England|north east]] of [[England]]. Once a [[coal mining|mining]] village, it is situated 10 km (6 miles) west of the city of [[Durham]], and close to the villages of [[Esh, County Durham|Esh]], [[Cornsay Colliery]], [[Esh Winning]], and [[Langley Park, County Durham|Langley Park]]. The village has a public house, the Hamsteels Inn, a hotel, Hamsteels Hall, a church, St. John the Baptist Hamsteels, a village hall, a playground and a used car dealership.
==Administration==
===Civic===
Quebec is for all purposes ([[Historic counties of England|historic]], [[Ceremonial counties of England|ceremonial]] and [[metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England|administrative]]) located in County Durham. The local [[British Police|police]] force is [[Durham Constabulary]].
===Political===
Quebec is located in the [[Derwentside]] district of [[County Durham]]. It is in the [[Esh, County Durham|Esh]] ward, which as of 2005 is represented on [[Derwentside District Council]] by Gordon Coulson ([[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]), Henry Guildford (Labour), and Wallace Tyrie (Independent), and on [[Durham County Council]] by Joseph Armstrong (Labour). It is part of the [[North West Durham (UK Parliament constituency)|North West Durham]] parliamentary [[constituency]], which as of 2005 is represented in [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] by [[Hilary Armstrong]] (Labour). It is in the [[North East England]] region, which serves as a constituency for the [[European Parliament]].
==Geography==
* [[British national grid reference system|Grid reference]]: {{gbmappingsmall|NZ181436}}
* Latitude and longitude: {{coor dm|54|47|N|1|43|W|region:GB}} (54.78, −1.72)
* Elevation: 200 m (650 feet)
* Road access: Minor roads off B6301 and B6302
* Rail access: [[Durham railway station|Durham]], 10 km (6 miles) by road
* Nearest large village: [[Esh Winning]], 3 km (2 miles)
* Nearest city: [[Durham]], 10 km (6 miles)
==History==
The [[Roman roads in Britain|Roman road]] known as [[Dere Street]] passes through the village on its way from [[Yorkshire]] to [[Hadrian's Wall]] via the [[Roman Britain|Roman fort]] at [[Lanchester]].
==Etymology==
The village takes its unusual name from the more famous [[Canada|Canadian]] city of [[Quebec City|Quebec]]. The fields in the area were enclosed in 1759, the year Quebec was captured from [[France]]. It was common at the time for fields distant from their home farm to be given the names of foreign lands, and cases where these names have come to be applied to whole villages are numerous throughout the North East.¹ Just several miles from Quebec, close to the town of [[Bishop Auckland]], is another village named after a Canadian city, [[Toronto, County Durham]].
==Sport==
In 1902, after the village's Hamsteels Rugby Club were beaten 77-0 in a match at Quebec against [[Hartlepool Rovers]], the West Hartlepool Mail's Rugby Correspondent described Quebec as an 'outlandish place'. Today the village only plays football and boasts three football teams, Quebec Steelers FC, the Hamsteels Inn FC and Quebec Rangers FC. Two of these sides play at Quebec's Hamsteels Colliery Welfare Ground, while the later is based in nearby Esh Winning. A 20 year old [[Chris Waddle]] was working in Quebec's former meat factory, Hamsteels Frozen Foods, when he was signed by [[Newcastle United]] in 1980 from nearby [[Northern League]] side [[Tow Law Town]] for £1,000.
==References==
# Simpson, David. "[http://www.thenortheast.fsnet.co.uk/Place%20Name%20Meanings%20P%20to%20S.htm Place names and their meanings]". ''North East England History Pages''. Retrieved 10 January 2005.
==External links==
* [http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=418099&Y=544197&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=freegaz&pc=&zm=0&scale=10000&down.x=280&down.y=6 Aerial photograph] from Multimap
[[Category:Villages in County Durham]]