Blaydon
Blaydon is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, and historically in County Durham.
Blaydon is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, and historically in County Durham. Blaydon, and neighbouring Winlaton, which Blaydon is now contiguous with, form the town of Blaydon-on-Tyne. The Blaydon/Winlaton ward had a population in 2011 of 13,896.
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Worth seeing in and around Blaydon
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.
- 01Metrocentre
Metrocentre is a shopping centre and entertainment complex in the Dunston area of Gateshead. It is located on the former site of Dunston Power Station, near to the River Tyne.
3.3 km · shopping and leisure complex in north east England · Wikipedia - 02Blaydon 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.
1.6 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Condercum
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.
3.9 km · Roman fort in Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Moorbank 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.
6 km · university botanical garden in Newcastle upon Tyne, England · Wikipedia - 05Axwell House
Axwell House is a mansion house and Grade II* listed building, at Axwell Park, Blaydon, Tyne and Wear, England. The house and surrounding estate were constructed in 1758 and owned by the Clavering baronets until 1920.
1.5 km · country house in Blaydon, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of Holy Cross, Ryton
Holy Cross Church is a Church of England parish church in Ryton, Tyne and Wear. The church is a Grade I listed building.
3.4 km · Grade I listed church in Ryton, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Newburn Bridge
Newburn Bridge is a road bridge crossing the River Tyne at Newburn in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It links Newburn, Walbottle and Throckley on the north side of the river with Ryton, Stella and Blaydon on the south side.
2.5 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08St Stephen's Church, Low Elswick
St Stephen's Church is a redundant Anglican church on Brunel Terrace, Low Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
5 km · grade II listed church in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09St Paul's Church
St Paul's Church is a 19th-century church in Winlaton, Tyne and Wear, England, dedicated to St Paul. It is a Grade II listed building.
1.4 km · church in Winlaton, England · Wikipedia - 10Banqueting House, Gibside
The Banqueting House is an 18th-century building, part of the Gibside estate, near Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Its style has been described as "Gothick".
4.5 km · banqueting house · Wikipedia
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Getting to Blaydon
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 9 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 122 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 151 km
- Stations
- Blaydon railway station, 500 m · Dunston railway station, 5.2 km · MetroCentre railway station, 3.5 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Blaydon130 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £15–20
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Blaydon150 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £19–25
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Blaydon169 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £21–28
- 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 Blaydon
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 Blaydon. 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.
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Blaydon is 7 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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