Pity Me is a suburban village of Durham, England, located north of Framwellgate Moor and west of Newton Hall.

[2] Related theories suggest that it comes from Pithead Mere, referring to an extended area of boggy waste ground onto which the outwash from minehead pumping engines was discharged,[citation needed] or that petite mer (French: small sea) is an ironic name for the settlement given the arid nature of the land.

[citation needed] However, the existence of several examples of other, lesser settlements, that share this name in Northumberland - particularly one north of Barrasford, near Hexham, and another outside Hartburn, west of Morpeth - suggests that it may be derived from some actual feature of the landscape, or former land-use, that has since been forgotten (one exotic suggestion for the North Tynedale example being the Ancient British term "Beddan Maes", meaning "burial ground" - although this suggestion has never been offered to explain the name of the Durham settlement.

[3] It is served by several frequent bus routes operated by Go North East; destinations include Newcastle, Sunderland, Durham and Sherburn Village.

There are various other instances of the place name "Pity Me" in the north of England: near Morpeth[citation needed] and Barrasford in Northumberland, near Bradbury in south County Durham and Pityme in Cornwall.