Westerhope
Westerhope is an area in western Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
Westerhope is an area in western Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was founded to provide housing for working families with sufficient land to grow vegetables. Westerhope expanded substantially in Victorian times with the discovery of workable coal reserves. It was also formerly a ward of the city council until 2018, which had a population of 9,196 at the 2011 Census.
The coal reserves have now been largely exhausted and the two pits - Coronation & North Walbottle - have long since closed. After the extraction of 21.5 million tons of coal, the North Walbottle pit was closed in 1968 as further coal extraction would have risked undermining the runway of Newcastle airport, which lies about 5 miles to the North.
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Worth seeing in and around Westerhope
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.
- 01Kingston Park
Kingston Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Kingston Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is used mostly for rugby union and rugby league matches and is the home stadium of Premiership Rugby side Newcastle Red Bulls.
2.9 km · rugby stadium in Newcastle-on-Tyne · Wikipedia - 02Blaydon Bridge
Blaydon Bridge is one of the main bridges crossing the River Tyne in North East England linking Scotswood in Newcastle upon Tyne and Blaydon in Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. The bridge was designed by Bullen and Partners and built by Edmund Nuttall Ltd between 1987 and 1990.
3.1 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Condercum
Condercum was a Roman fort on the site of the modern-day Condercum Estate in Benwell, a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was the third fort on Hadrian's Wall, about 6.8 miles east of Rudchester fort and only 2.4 miles west of Pons Aelius fort, and was situated on a hilltop 2 miles to the west of the city.
3.4 km · Roman fort in Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Newburn Bridge
Newburn Bridge is a road bridge crossing the River Tyne at Newburn in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It links Newburn, Walbottle and Throckley on the north side of the river with Ryton, Stella and Blaydon on the south side.
3.6 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05The Mitre
The Mitre is a building situated in the Benwell area in the west end of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
3.2 km · Grade II listed building in Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Scotswood Railway Bridge
Scotswood Railway Bridge is a pipeline bridge and former railway bridge crossing the River Tyne in North East England. It previously carried the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway between Scotswood and Blaydon stations.
3.4 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Woolsington Hall
Woolsington Hall is a Grade II* listed country house in a 92-acre estate, in the village of Woolsington, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, north-west of the city centre, and immediately south of Newcastle Airport. In addition to the hall, the stables, coach house, orangery, walled garden and east wing are Grade II listed.
3.8 km · historic site in Woolsington, Newcastle upon Tyne · Wikipedia
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Getting to Westerhope
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 4 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 126 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 149 km
- Stations
- Blaydon railway station, 3.7 km · Callerton Parkway metro station, 3.3 km · Fawdon metro station, 3.8 km · Bank Foot, 2.2 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Westerhope134 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £15–21
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Westerhope148 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £16–21
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Westerhope35 km · quickest by road, 55 min · £4–5
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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 Westerhope
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 Westerhope. 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.
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Next door to Westerhope
Westerhope is 6 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Woolsingtonvillage and civil parish in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom2.7 km
- Newburndistrict in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Blakelaw and North Fenhamcivil parish in Tyne and Wear, England, UK2.4 km
- Walbottlevillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK1.9 km
- Throckleyvillage in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK3.5 km
- Kentonsuburb in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK3.2 km