Spanish City
The Spanish City is a dining and leisure centre in Whitley Bay, a seaside town in North Tyneside, Tyne & Wear, England.
The Spanish City is a dining and leisure centre in Whitley Bay, a seaside town in North Tyneside, Tyne & Wear, England. Erected as a smaller version of Blackpool's Pleasure Beach, it opened in 1910 as a concert hall, restaurant, roof garden and tearoom. A ballroom was added in 1920 and later a permanent funfair.
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Worth seeing in and around Spanish City
7 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.
- 01Tynemouth Castle and Priory
Tynemouth Priory and Castle is an historic site located on a promontory at the mouth of the Tyne at Tynemouth. The medieval Benedictine priory was protected by walls, towers, and a gatehouse.
3.8 km · historic coastal site in north-eastern England · Wikipedia - 02St. Mary's Lighthouse
St Mary's Lighthouse is on the tiny St Mary's Island, just north of Whitley Bay on the coast of North East England. The small rocky tidal island is linked to the mainland by a short concrete causeway which is submerged at high tide.
2.7 km · lighthouse at North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Our Lady and St Oswin's Church, Tynemouth
Our Lady and St Oswin's Church, also known as St Oswin's Church, is a Catholic parish church in Tynemouth, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It was built in 1890 and designed by Edward Joseph Hansom and Archibald Matthias Dunn.
3.7 km · church in Tynemouth, England · Wikipedia - 04Q139780082
Blue Reef is a national chain of public aquariums in England owned by Aspro Parks.
2.5 km · public aquarium and tourist attraction in Tynemouth, UK · Wikipedia - 05Playhouse, 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.
200 m · theatre in Whitley Bay, England · Wikipedia - 06St George's Cullercoats
St George's Church in Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear, England, is a church built in the 19th-century French Gothic style. It is an active place of worship and is a Grade I listed building.
2.1 km · church in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St 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.
700 m · grade II listed church in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Spanish City
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 15 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 132 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 157 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Spanish City139 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £16–21
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Spanish City156 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £19–25
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Spanish City182 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · £22–29
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Spanish City
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 Spanish City. 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 Spanish City
Spanish City is 13 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Tynemouthtown in north east England3.7 km
- Whitley Bayseaside town on the north east coast of England300 m
- Hartleyvillage in Northumberland, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Shiremoorvillage in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom3.9 km
- Cullercoatstown in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom1.8 km
- Earsdonvillage in Tyne and Wear, England3 km