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Lamesley

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lamesley

9 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.

  1. 01
    Angel of the North

    Sculpture by Antony Gormley

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ravensworth Castle

    Castle in Lamesley, Tyne and Wear, England, UK

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Shipley Art Gallery

    Art gallery in Gateshead, United Kingdom

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St John's Church, Gateshead Fell

    Grade II listed church in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, UK

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sunderland Talmudical College

    College in England

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Saltwell Park

    Park in Gateshead, England

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Chad

    Church in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, UK

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Underhill

    House in Gateshead, England, UK; first house in the world to be lit by electric light

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Saltwell Towers

    House in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, UK

    3 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.

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Getting to Lamesley

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 15 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 117 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 160 km
Stations
Low Fell railway station, 2 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Lamesley
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £14–19
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Lamesley
    159 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £20–26
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Lamesley
    165 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £20–27
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lamesley

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 Lamesley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Glasgow or Stranraer (for ferries from Ireland) head for Carlisle then follow A69 east - this road climbs no great hills and is rarely closed by winter weather.
  • Get inAn overnight DFDS ferry sails from IJmuiden near Amsterdam to North Shields on the north bank of the Tyne.
  • Get aroundThe Tyne ferry plies between North and South Shields, taking foot passengers and bicycles.

From Wikivoyage: Tyne and Wear, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    235 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    262 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    291 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    364 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    373 km

If you know how people move in Lamesley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Lamesley

Lamesley is 6 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.