Cullercoats
Cullercoats is a coastal village in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England.
Cullercoats is a coastal village in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. Historically in Northumberland, it has now been absorbed into the wider Tyneside conurbation, sitting between Tynemouth to the south and Whitley Bay to the north. The population of Cullercoats at the 2021 census was 6,232.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Cullercoats
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.
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- 06Christ Church, North Shields
Grade II listed church in North Shields, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
2.6 km · Wikipedia - 07
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- 10St Paul's Church
Grade II listed church in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
1.4 km · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Cullercoats
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 16 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 131 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 159 km
- Stations
- South Shields, 4 km · North Shields Transport Hub, 2.9 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Cullercoats138 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £16–21
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Cullercoats158 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £19–26
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Cullercoats181 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · £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 Cullercoats
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 Cullercoats. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSee North Shields for the Tyne ferry and overnight DFDS ferries from Holland.
- Get inOther useful services include the 306 (slower than the 308/309 but a more scenic route through Tynemouth), the 317 (a local route through North Tyneside which connects with ferries from South Shields), and the 57 (an hourly service from Ashington and Cramlington).
From Wikivoyage: Whitley Bay, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Cullercoats – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Cullercoats
Cullercoats is 13 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Tynemouthtown in north east England1.9 km
- Whitley Bayseaside town on the north east coast of England1.6 km
- North Shieldstown in England2.7 km
- Murtonvillage in North Tyneside, England3.4 km
- Spanish Citypermanent funfair in Whitley Bay, a seaside town in North Tyneside, Tyne & Wear, England1.9 km
- Monkseatonvillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK2 km