Earsdon
Earsdon is a village in the borough of North Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England.
Earsdon is a village in the borough of North Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It sits on the border of Northumberland, which it is historically part of, and is approximately two miles from Whitley Bay. The village had a population of 613 in 2011.
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Worth seeing in and around Earsdon
4 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.
- 01Silverlink Shopping Park
The Silverlink Shopping Park is a retail park in North Tyneside, England containing more than 20 stores with retail accommodation of 208,000 square feet. It was developed by the Crown Estate, has 927 car parking spaces, and has an annual footfall of 7.2 million.
3.8 km · shopping mall in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear · Wikipedia - 02Stephenson Railway Museum
The North Tyneside Steam Railway and Stephenson Steam Railway are visitor attractions in North Shields, North East England. The museum and railway workshops share a building on Middle Engine Lane adjacent to the Silverlink Retail Park.
3.3 km · Railway museum in North Shields, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Playhouse, Whitley Bay
The Playhouse, Whitley Bay is a state of the art, 630 seater auditorium in the coastal resort of Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear. Having undergone a major and completed refurbishment by North Tyneside Council in 2009, the contemporary theatre has a glass foyer, front of house facilities, box office and bar facilities.
2.9 km · theatre in Whitley Bay, England · Wikipedia - 04St Paul's Church
St Paul's Church is the parish church of Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, United Kingdom.The church was founded in 1864. The church's official title is St Paul's Church, Cullercoats but it is located near the centre of the town rather than the suburb of Cullercoats.
3.1 km · grade II listed church in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Earsdon
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 12 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 132 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 155 km
- Stations
- Backworth railway station, 2 km · Palmersville, 3.8 km · Cullercoats, 4 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Earsdon139 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £16–21
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Earsdon154 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £19–25
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Earsdon180 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · £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 Earsdon
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 Earsdon. 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).
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Next door to Earsdon
Earsdon is 11 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Whitley Bayseaside town on the north east coast of England3.2 km
- Backworthvillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK2.3 km
- Hartleyvillage in Northumberland, United Kingdom3.2 km
- Shiremoorvillage in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom1.2 km
- Murtonvillage in North Tyneside, England1.8 km
- Spanish Citypermanent funfair in Whitley Bay, a seaside town in North Tyneside, Tyne & Wear, England3 km