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Winlaton Mill

Winlaton Mill is a village in Tyne and Wear, North East England.

Winlaton Mill
Winlaton Mill · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Winlaton Mill is a village in Tyne and Wear, North East England. It is not to be confused with Winlaton to the northwest which now comprises the southern part of Blaydon. The village is halfway between Gateshead to the northeast and Rowlands Gill to the southwest. Statistically Winlaton Mill is part of the ward of Winlaton and High Spen which contains part of Blaydon, High Spen and other outlying villages. The village is on the A694 which joins the A1 at Swalwell and contains the Red Kite Pub and Restaurant. Winlaton Mill is near the River Derwent which may suggest its name.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Winlaton Mill

6 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.

  1. 01
    Metrocentre

    Metrocentre is a shopping centre and entertainment complex in the Dunston area of Gateshead. It is located on the former site of Dunston Power Station, near to the River Tyne.

    3.3 km · shopping and leisure complex in north east England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Blaydon 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.

    3.2 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Axwell House

    Axwell House is a mansion house and Grade II* listed building, at Axwell Park, Blaydon, Tyne and Wear, England. The house and surrounding estate were constructed in 1758 and owned by the Clavering baronets until 1920.

    1.3 km · country house in Blaydon, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Scotswood 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.

    3.1 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Paul's Church

    St Paul's Church is a 19th-century church in Winlaton, Tyne and Wear, England, dedicated to St Paul. It is a Grade II listed building.

    1.3 km · church in Winlaton, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Banqueting House, Gibside

    The Banqueting House is an 18th-century building, part of the Gibside estate, near Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Its style has been described as "Gothick".

    2.3 km · banqueting house · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Winlaton Mill

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 11 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 120 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 153 km
Stations
Blaydon railway station, 2.5 km · MetroCentre railway station, 3.6 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Winlaton Mill
    128 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £15–20
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Winlaton Mill
    152 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £19–25
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Winlaton Mill
    166 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Winlaton Mill

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 Mill. 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

    228 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    254 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    283 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    366 km

If you know how people move in Winlaton Mill – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Winlaton Mill

Winlaton Mill is 7 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Whickhamtown in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK2.7 km
  • Blaydontown in Tyneside, England, UK2.2 km
  • Rowlands Gillvillage in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Winlatonvillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK1.4 km
  • Byermoorvillage in Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Sunnisidevillage in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom2.8 km