Blakelaw
Blakelaw is an electoral ward situated in the North of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England.
Blakelaw is an electoral ward situated in the North of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England. The population of the ward is 11,186, which is 4.6% of the city's population. Car ownership in the area is 50.6%: this is lower than the city average of 54.7%, increasing to 11,507 at the 2011 Census. House prices in this area average at £114,000.
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Worth seeing in and around Blakelaw
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01St James’ Park
St. James' Park is a football stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
3.8 km · football stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Newcastle University
The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, which trades as Newcastle University, is a public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia.
4 km · university in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Blue Shield International
The Blue Shield, formerly the International Committee of the Blue Shield, is an international organization founded in 1996 to protect the world's cultural heritage from threats such as armed conflict and natural disasters. Originally intended as the "cultural equivalent of the Red Cross", its name derives from the blue shield symbol designed by Jan Zachwatowicz, used to signify cultural sites protected by the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict.
3.8 km · international organization founded to protect the world's cultural heritage · Wikipedia - 04Kingston Park
Kingston Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Kingston Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is used mostly for rugby union and rugby league matches and is the home stadium of Premiership Rugby side Newcastle Red Bulls.
2.7 km · rugby stadium in Newcastle-on-Tyne · Wikipedia - 05Condercum
Condercum was a Roman fort on the site of the modern-day Condercum Estate in Benwell, a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was the third fort on Hadrian's Wall, about 6.8 miles east of Rudchester fort and only 2.4 miles west of Pons Aelius fort, and was situated on a hilltop 2 miles to the west of the city.
2.1 km · Roman fort in Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Blaydon Bridge
Blaydon Bridge is one of the main bridges crossing the River Tyne in North East England linking Scotswood in Newcastle upon Tyne and Blaydon in Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. The bridge was designed by Bullen and Partners and built by Edmund Nuttall Ltd between 1987 and 1990.
3.2 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Leazes Park
Leazes Park is an urban park in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Grade II listed, it is the city's oldest park, opened in 1873, and lies to the west of the city centre.
3.6 km · park in Newcastle upon Tyne, England · Wikipedia - 08Moorbank Botanic Gardens
The Moorbank Botanic Garden was a university botanical garden in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It occupied a 3 hectares site on Claremont Road to the west of the main Newcastle University campus, and was developed in the 1920s.
2.4 km · university botanical garden in Newcastle upon Tyne, England · Wikipedia - 09Hatton Gallery
The Hatton Gallery is Newcastle University's art gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is based in the university's Fine Art Building and part of North East Museums.
3.9 km · art museum in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10Church of All Saints
All Saints’ Church, Gosforth is a Church of England parish church in the suburb of Gosforth, which lies to the north of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne. All Saints’ is part of the Diocese of Newcastle and within the Newcastle Central Deanery.
3.2 km · church building in Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Blakelaw
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 5 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 125 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 151 km
- Stations
- St James, 3.9 km · MetroCentre railway station, 3.9 km · Fawdon metro station, 2.7 km · Wansbeck Road, 3.2 km · West Jesmond metro station, 3.9 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Blakelaw134 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £15–21
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Blakelaw75 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £8–11
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Blakelaw172 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £21–29
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Blakelaw
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Blakelaw. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPort of Tyne, east of city centre, has overnight DFDS ferries from IJmuiden near Amsterdam.
- Get aroundThe Transport North East Day Ticket covers bus, Metro, rail and ferry services within Tyne and Wear for £6.00 per day, or £6.80 including County Durham and Northumberland.
- Get aroundA ride from city centre to the airport in 2022 is around £15, and to the ferry terminal is £18.
From Wikivoyage: Newcastle upon Tyne, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Blakelaw
Blakelaw is 4 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Gosforthsuburb of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England3.4 km
- Woolsingtonvillage and civil parish in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Blakelaw and North Fenhamcivil parish in Tyne and Wear, England, UK600 m
- Walbottlevillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK3.6 km
- Kentonsuburb in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK1.7 km
- Fawdonsuburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, England2.8 km