page_title: Spennymoor
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Spennymoor / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: English: Jubilee Gardens, Spennymoor A very attractive park, opened to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
context_page_description: Spennymoor is a town and civil parish in County Durham, England. It stands above the Wear Valley about 7 mi south of Durham. The town was founded over 160 years ago. The Town Council area, which includes the villages of Kirk Merrington, Middlestone Moor, Byers Green and Tudhoe, has a population of about 20,000.
context_section_description: The main attraction in Spennymoor is Victoria Jubilee Park which was given to the people of the town by Queen Victoria to celebrate the jubilee of her reign, and is sited on land which was once part of the Whitworth Hall estate of the Shafto family. Until World War II there was a cannon from the Crimean War on display in the park, this was taken away to be melted down for munitions. A Millennium arch was erected in the park.
  The leisure centre houses a swimming pool, and offers swimming lessons, football coaching, martial arts tutoring, fitness classes, multi sensory room, badminton practice, a Lifestyle Fitness gym and gymnastic workouts and is also home to Regional Gymnasium Centre, made possible by funding from the National Lottery, Sport England and Sedgefield Borough Council, and is amongst the most modern in the country. There are also plans for a new regional arts centre to be added to the leisure centre, which stands at the junction of High Street and Cheapside in the town centre.
  Spennymoor Town F.C. are the main local football team and won the FA Vase in 2013, after winning 2–1 in the final at Wembley Stadium against Tunbridge Wells.
  Spenny Cinema, a monthly community cinema, is run at St Paul's Centre in the heart of Spennymoor by Damascus Road Technical Services, in association with the centre.
caption: Jubilee Park
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