Sherburn Hill is a village in County Durham, in England.

In 1851, the Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Church was established in Sherburn Hill.

Sherburn Hill Colliery opened in 1835, owned then by the Earl of Durham.

By the 1890s it was owned by Lambton Collieries Ltd, and the pit employed 300 men and boys, producing 400 tons of coal per day.

By 1914 there were 1,260 people employed at the colliery (1,071 working below ground, and 189 on the surface).