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Winlaton

Winlaton is a village situated in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.

The place

Winlaton is a village situated in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Historically in County Durham, it was incorporated into the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and Borough of Gateshead in 1974. In 2011 the village was absorbed into the Gateshead MBC ward of Winlaton and High Spen. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 8,342.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Winlaton

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 10 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 121 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 152 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Winlaton
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £15–20
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Winlaton
    151 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £19–26
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Winlaton
    167 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Winlaton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    227 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    253 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    282 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    364 km

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Next door to Winlaton

Winlaton is 8 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.