Fawdon
Fawdon is an area and electoral ward of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England.
Fawdon is an area and electoral ward of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It is also close to the A1 western bypass. The population of the ward is 10,890, reducing to 10,090 at the 2011 Census, 5.7% of the total population of Newcastle upon Tyne. Car ownership in the area is 53.6%, lower than the city average of 54.7%. It falls within the historic county boundaries of Northumberland.
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Getting to Fawdon
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 4 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 128 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 151 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Fawdon135 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £16–21
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Fawdon149 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £18–24
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Fawdon175 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 Fawdon
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 Fawdon. 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 Fawdon
Fawdon is 5 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.