Ferryhill StationFerryhill Station is situated to the south east of Ferryhill, next to Chilton Lane and near the site of Ferryhill railway station, a few miles south of Durham.Notable people The former Durham cricketer Bob Cole was born in the village. A plaque outside 9 Gladstone Terrace denotes where novelist and poet Sid Chaplin lived between 1941 and 1953.