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Belmont Library

Opening Hours

Monday 9.30am until 7.00pm

Tuesday 9.30am until 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.30am until 12.30pm
Thursday 9.30am until 7.00pm
Friday 9.30am until 7.00pm
Saturday 9.00am until 1.00pm

If you wish to renew or reserve an item, please go to our Libraries Online page.

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Contact Details

Cheveley Park Shopping Centre
Belmont
County Durham
DH1 2AA

Tel: 0191 3843223

Email: Belmont Library

Contact: Dorothy Mason

Location map of Belmont Library

Location and Access

Belmont Library is situated in Cheveley Shopping Centre opposite the shops, next-door to the Doctor's Surgery and offers a range of services for you and your family to enjoy. Belmont Library has wheel-chair access and supernova software.

Transport and Travel

There are two bus-stops one adjacent to the library and the other opposite. All buses go into Durham. Belmont Library has its own car park.

Belmont library

Services at a Glance


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Services in Detail

  • Books for adults and children
  • Books in large print
  • Book request service
  • Books in foreign languages
  • Books in dual languages
  • British Standards online
  • Census online
  • Community Information Online
  • Community Legal Service Quality Mark for assisted information
  • Computers for public use with internet access and email and CD burning facilities
  • Memory sticks for hire
  • Display space
  • Durham Record Database
  • EITI telephone translation service
  • Housebound reader service
  • Information and enquiry service
  • Information leaflets
  • Jigsaws
  • Language tapes
  • Music scores (by request)
  • Photocopying
  • Sales of local history books, cards and magnifiers
  • Scanner
  • Reference books
  • Talking books
  • Theatre bookings for Darlington Civic Theatre

Regular Events

  • Chatterbooks Children's Reading Group, Mondays fortnightly 3.45pm (term time only)
  • Adult Reading group - second Wednesday of every month 2.30pm or first Thursday in the month 5.30pm
  • Tiny Tots Story and Craft Sessions - weekly Monday 2.30pm. (term time only)
  • Councillor Surgery - first Monday of the month 7.00p.m.
  • Computer Taster Sessions Thursday mornings 10.00am until 11.00am.
  • Class visits Thursday and Friday afternoons 2.30pm
  • Knit and Natter 2nd Saturday of the month 10.00am-11.00am.

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Join our Talking Books Reading Group

Come along on the third Wednesday of the month for an afternoon of coffee and chat about books and the particular joys and tribulations of reading talking books. Transport is available free to those in the Durham area who would other wise be unable to attend - contact the branch for further details.

Join our "Chatterbooks" Children's Reading Group

Mondays fortnightly 3.45pm until 4.30pm.