Howdon
Howdon is a largely residential area in the eastern part of Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England.
Howdon is a largely residential area in the eastern part of Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England. It consists of High Howdon and the smaller settlement of East Howdon. Much of the High Howdon area was formerly called Willington prior to post-World War II urbanisation. The North Tyneside ward population at the 2011 Census was 11,129.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Howdon
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.
- 01Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey
The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Monkwearmouth–Jarrow, known simply as Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey, was a Benedictine double monastery in the Kingdom of Northumbria, England. Its first house was St Peter's, Monkwearmouth, on the River Wear, founded in AD 674–5.
2.7 km · Benedictine monastery · Wikipedia - 02Castrum Segedunum
Segedunum was a Roman fort at modern-day Wallsend, North Tyneside in North East England. The fort lay at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall near the banks of the River Tyne.
2.8 km · Roman fort in Wallsend, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Hilda's Church, South Shields
St Hilda's Church, South Shields is a Grade II listed parish church in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England. It is part of the Church of England.
3.7 km · Grade II listed building in South Shields, South Tyneside, UK · Wikipedia - 04Christ Church, North Shields
Christ Church is a church North Shields, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England is an Anglican church in the parish of North Shields Christ Church, Diocese of Newcastle.
3.2 km · grade II listed church in North Shields, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Wallsend Town Hall
Wallsend Town Hall is a municipal building on High Street East in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of North Tyneside Council from 1974 to 2008, is a Grade II listed building.
2.2 km · town hall in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Jarrow Hall
Jarrow Hall is a museum in Jarrow, South Tyneside, England which celebrates the life of Bede; a monk, author and scholar who lived in at the Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Wearmouth-Jarrow, a double monastery at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth,, England. The site features a museum dedicated to the life and times of the famous monk, with other features and attractions – including a reconstructed Anglo-Saxon farm and the 18th-century Georgian building Jarrow Hall house itself – reflected in a calendar of activities, including special themed events, an educational programme for schools and heritage skills workshops, alongside space for businesses and events.
2.5 km · museum in Jarrow, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Chirton Hall
Chirton Hall or Chirton House, occasionally spelled Churton and originally Cheuton, was a country house in Chirton, in what is now a western suburb of North Shields, Tyne and Wear, North East England. Historically, the house was in the county of Northumberland.
2.3 km · country house in Chirton, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08
- 09Fish Quay Old High Light
The High and Low Lights of North Shields are decommissioned leading lights in North Shields, Tyne and Wear in the United Kingdom. Two pairs of lights survive: the older pair date from 1727 and were operational until 1810; the newer pair then took over, remaining in use until 1999.
3.8 km · lighthouse in Tyne and Wear, England · Wikipedia - 10The Word
The Word, National Centre for the Written Word is a library and community centre in South Shields, England.
3.6 km · library in South Shields · 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 Howdon
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 13 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 127 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 159 km
- Stations
- Backworth railway station, 4 km · South Shields, 4 km · Palmersville, 3.9 km · Percy Main, 1.3 km · Hadrian Road, 1.6 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Howdon133 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £15–20
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Howdon158 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £19–25
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Howdon175 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · £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 Howdon
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 Howdon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe district has three Tyne and Wear Metro stations on the northern loop of the Yellow Line: Trains run M-Sa every 15 min and Su every 30 min from St James and Monument in Newcastle city centre via Wallsend and Percy Main (for Royal Quays and Port of Tyne), taking 25 min to North Shields Metro (for Tyne ferry), Tynemouth Metro (for the town centre) and Cullercoats Metro.
- Get inBus 19 runs hourly from Ashington via Bedlington, Cramlington, Northumberland Park Interchange, Cobalt Business Park and Silverlink shopping centre to North Shields town and ferry pier.
- Get inis served by the Shields Ferry across the Tyne from South Shields.
- Get inShuttle Bus 333 links the pier to North Shields Metro Station and is included in the ferry fare.
- Get inWhen a previous ferry was replaced in 1987, she went to operate boat trips on Loch Ness.
From Wikivoyage: Tynemouth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
- 01239 km
- 02265 km
- 03294 km
- 04365 km
- 05373 km
If you know how people move in Howdon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Howdon
Howdon is 8 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Wallsendtown in North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom2.5 km
- North Tynesidemetropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England3.5 km
- North Shieldstown in England3.3 km
- Murtonvillage in North Tyneside, England3.4 km
- Willingtonvillage in North Tyneside, UK900 m
- Prestonvillage in Tyne and Wear, England3.3 km