Quaking Houses is a small village near to the town of Stanley in County Durham, in England.

[1] It may have been originally settled by Quakers,[citation needed] but during the Industrial Revolution it developed into a mining village with traditional terraced houses.

However, an alternative origin is suggested by the following; the 1865 OS Map shows a farm called Quaking House to the north at Anfield Plain and a colliery railway line ran past this farm branching to the village mine.

At one time at the bottom of Fourth Street stood a walled reservoir and at the top of the village on the fell in the woodland was a dam, both of which had been required for the mines in the area.

SM&HCC also operated a drift mine in the Stanley Burn valley to the north of Woodside Terrace.