Longbenton
Longbenton is a district of North Tyneside, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England.
Longbenton is a district of North Tyneside, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It is largely occupied by an extensive estate originally built as municipal housing by Newcastle City Council in the 1930s and extended in the 1950s. It is served by the Tyne and Wear Metro stations Longbenton Metro station and Four Lane Ends Metro Station. Nearby places are Killingworth, Forest Hall, Four Lane Ends, West Moor, Heaton and South Gosforth, in Newcastle upon Tyne. The Longbenton and Killingworth Urban Area had a population of 34,878 in 2001. This figure increased to 37,070 in 2011.
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Getting to Longbenton
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 9 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 126 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 155 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Longbenton135 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £16–21
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Longbenton152 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £19–25
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Longbenton33 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £4.5–6
- 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 Longbenton
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 Longbenton. 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 Longbenton
Longbenton is 4 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.