Crawcrook
Crawcrook is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England.
Crawcrook is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England. The population taken at the 2021 Census of the Gateshead ward was 9,058, increasing from 8,841 in 2011. The village is historically part of County Durham.
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Worth seeing in and around Crawcrook
5 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.
- 01Church 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.
2 km · Grade I listed church in Ryton, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Newburn 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.
3.2 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03George Stephenson's Birthplace
George Stephenson's Birthplace is the 18th-century stone cottage home of rail pioneer George Stephenson. Located along the north bank of the River Tyne in the village of Wylam, Northumberland, the cottage is owned by the National Trust and until recently it was open to the public as a historic house museum.
1.7 km · historic house museum in Wylam, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Wylam Bridge
Wylam Bridge is a road bridge in Northumberland, England linking the residential area of North Wylam and neighbouring villages of Heddon-on-the-Wall, and Horsley with the railway station in South Wylam as well as west Gateshead, including the villages of Ryton and Crawcrook.
1.9 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Wylam Railway Bridge
Wylam Railway Bridge is a footbridge and former railway bridge crossing the River Tyne at Hagg Bank, approximately 1⁄2 mile west of Wylam in Northumberland, England.
2.5 km · bridge in Wylam, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Crawcrook
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 10 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 123 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 148 km
- Stations
- Wylam railway station, 1.8 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Crawcrook131 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £16–21
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Crawcrook147 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £16–21
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Crawcrook168 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · £22–29
- 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 Crawcrook
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 Crawcrook. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe Shields Ferry crosses the mouth of the Tyne between South Shields and North Shields every 30 mins, a seven-minute ride.
- Get aroundFoot passengers and bikes only; both ferry piers are served by the Metro.
- Get aroundThe Tees Transporter Bridge is a weird contraption: it's a gondola slung beneath a slender metal bridge that carries vehicles and others across the river between Middlesbrough (south bank) and Port Clarence, Stockton (north bank).
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If you know how people move in Crawcrook – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Crawcrook
Crawcrook is 11 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Prudhoetown in Northumberland, England3.8 km
- Wylamvillage and civil parish in Northumberland, UK2.2 km
- Heddon-on-the-Wallvillage in Northumberland, England, UK3 km
- Newburndistrict in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom3.5 km
- Rytontown in Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom1.8 km
- Clara Valehamlet in Tyne and Wear, England1.3 km