Tyne Dock
Tyne Dock is a neighbourhood within the town of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, on the south bank of the River Tyne.
Tyne Dock is a neighbourhood within the town of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, on the south bank of the River Tyne. It takes its name from the large dock on the river which was opened in 1859 by the North Eastern Railway to handle Tyneside's coal exports. At its height the trade amounted to seven million tons of coal transported via the four staiths which had been built to facilitate the process. This trade declined in the second half of the twentieth century and the bridges that carried the coal trains into the dock, the famous Tyne Dock Arches, were demolished from 1977 on. The dock itself has been progressively infilled since closure, allowing for the building of modern storage warehouses. This process concluded with the final 13 acres that were filled in as part of the project to build the second Tyne Tunnel. The Tyne Dock basin was filled with 400,000 cubic metres of sediment dredged from the Tyne.
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Worth seeing in and around Tyne Dock
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.
1.4 km · Benedictine monastery · Wikipedia - 02Arbeia
Arbeia was a large Roman fort in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England, now ruined and partially reconstructed. It was first excavated in the 1870s.
2.9 km · Roman fort and museum in South Shields, United Kingdom · 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.
2 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.
3.4 km · grade II listed church in North Shields, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Herd Groyne Light
South Shields is a coastal port town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England; it lies on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. The town was known in Roman times as Arbeia and as Caer Urfa by the Early Middle Ages.
3.5 km · lighthouse in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Fish Quay Old Low 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.
3.4 km · lighthouse in Tyne and Wear, England · Wikipedia - 07Jarrow 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.
1.5 km · museum in Jarrow, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Chirton 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.
3 km · country house in Chirton, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09
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Getting to Tyne Dock
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 16 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 125 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 162 km
- Stations
- Brockley Whins, 2.5 km · Percy Main, 2.6 km · Bede, 1.2 km · Chichester, 1.4 km · Meadow Well, 2.5 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Tyne Dock133 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £15–20
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Tyne Dock161 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £19–26
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Tyne Dock175 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £21–28
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No local-transport research exists yet for Tyne Dock
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 Tyne Dock. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFor long-distance routes by air, rail, bus or ferry see Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Get inis served by the Shields Ferry across the Tyne from North Shields.
- Get inOn the far side, Shuttle Bus 333 links the pier to North Shields town centre and Metro station and is included in the ferry fare.
- Get inAlthough Port of Tyne is mostly on the south bank, the overnight DFDS ferries from IJmuiden near Amsterdam dock at the north bank terminal in North Shields.
- Get aroundBuilt in 1951, they're 884-ft (270-m) long, and entered by funicular lifts and by the original wooden Waygood-Otis escalators.
From Wikivoyage: South Tyneside, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Tyne Dock
Tyne Dock is 10 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- South Shieldstown in Tyne and Wear, England, UK2.1 km
- South Tynesidemetropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England, UK2.6 km
- North Shieldstown in England3.2 km
- Howdonsuburb in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England, UK3.6 km
- Boldon Collieryarea and ward in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England3.6 km
- Prestonvillage in Tyne and Wear, England3.2 km