Hartlepool College of Further Education, Hartlepool

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Hartlepool College of Further Education is a non-denominational mixed further education college based in Hartlepool, United Kingdom, providing courses to students aged 16 and over. The College has existed in several forms since 1897, but occupied its now familiar location on Stockton Street in the early 1960s. In 2006 plans were made to replace the College building with a modern, purpose built campus with dedicated specialist areas in Engineering, Aerospace, Automotive, Environmental Technologies, Construction, Hospitality and Catering, Health and Beauty, Sport and many others. The new building was constructed between 2009 and 2011 at a cost of £53 million, with final groundwork completed in summer 2012. The College was officially opened by the Duke of York in February 2012. Its Skills Academy was opened by the Rt. Hon. The Lord Mandelson in October 2011. ()

Coordinates: 54°41'3"N, 1°12'35"W

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Stockton StHartlepool United Kingdom

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Nearby attractions include: Middleton Grange Shopping Centre, HMS Trincomalee, National Museum of the Royal Navy, PS Wingfield Castle.

~730 ftW
Shopping, Shopping centre
Middleton Grange Shopping Centre, Hartlepool
4 min walk • Middleton Grange is a shopping centre in Hartlepool, England. It was built in 1969 and it was opened by Princess Anne on 27 May 1970. The site of the shopping centre was originally terraced streets that were demolished in the late 1960s.
0.4 miN
Ship
HMS Trincomalee, Hartlepool
12 min walk • HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship in Hartlepool, England.
0.4 miN
Museum, Maritime museum
National Museum of the Royal Navy, Hartlepool
12 min walk • The National Museum of the Royal Navy is a maritime exposition and visitor attraction in Hartlepool, County Durham, Northern England. The concept of the attraction is the thematic re-creation of an 18th-century seaport, in the time of Lord Nelson, Napoleon and the Battle of Trafalgar.
0.4 miN
Ship
PS Wingfield Castle, Hartlepool
11 min walk • The PS Wingfield Castle is a former Humber Estuary ferry, now preserved as a museum ship in Hartlepool, County Durham, England. The Wingfield Castle was built by William Gray & Company at Hartlepool, and launched in 1934, along with a sister ship, the Tattershall Castle.
1.4 miNE
Sacred and religious sites, Church
St Hilda's Church, Hartlepool
35 min walk • St Hildas Church is a parish church in Hartlepool, County Durham, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
~1020 ftW
Memorial
West Hartlepool War Memorial, Hartlepool
5 min walk • West Hartlepool War Memorial or Victory Square War Memorial or Victoria Square Cenotaph is a war memorial in Hartlepool, County Durham, England commemorating those from West Hartlepool who died in World War I and World War II. The war memorial, created in the 1920s, is located on Victoria Road in Hartlepool's Victory Square.
0.7 miNW
Mosque
Nasir Mosque, Hartlepool
17 min walk • Nasir Mosque is the first purpose-built mosque in Hartlepool, located on Brougham Terrace. The mosque was built by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and inaugurated in 2005 by Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Head of the Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
0.6 miNE
Lighthouse
Seaton Carew lighthouse, Hartlepool
16 min walk • The Seaton Carew lighthouses were a pair of leading light towers built in Seaton Carew to guide ships into the River Tees. The low light was demolished over a century ago and what remained of the high light has been rebuilt in Hartlepool Marina.
0.4 miN
History museum, Museum, Maritime museum
Museum of Hartlepool, Hartlepool
11 min walk • The Museum of Hartlepool opened in 1996 and is located within the attraction Hartlepool's Maritime Experience. It houses the collections once on display in the Gray Art Gallery and Museum and the Maritime Museum which was on the Headland, Hartlepool, both are now closed. The fine art collections are displayed at Hartlepool Art Gallery.
1.4 miNE
Monastery
Hartlepool Abbey, Hartlepool
35 min walk • Hartlepool Abbey, also known as Heretu Abbey, Hereteu Abbey, Heorthu Abbey or Herutey Abbey, was a Northumbrian monastery founded in 640 CE by Hieu, the first of the saintly recluses of Northumbria, and Aidan of Lindisfarne, on the Headland Estate of Hartlepool now called the Heugh or Old Hartlepool, in County Durham, England.
~580 ftN
Museum, Art museum
Hartlepool Art Gallery, Hartlepool
3 min walk • Hartlepool Art Gallery is an art gallery in Hartlepool, County Durham, England. The gallery opened in 1996. It is located in Church Square within Christ Church, a restored Victorian church, built in 1854 and designed by the architect Edward Buckton Lamb.

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Which popular attractions are close to Hartlepool College of Further Education?

Nearby attractions include The Studio, Hartlepool (2 min walk), Hartlepool Art Gallery, Hartlepool (3 min walk), Borough of Hartlepool, Hartlepool (5 min walk), West Hartlepool War Memorial, Hartlepool (5 min walk).

How to get to Hartlepool College of Further Education by public transport?

The nearest stations to Hartlepool College of Further Education:

Bus

Hartlepool Interchange • Lines: 36, 426, 436 (5 min walk)
Hartlepool Transport Interchange (5 min walk)

Train

Hartlepool (6 min walk)