Forests & woodlands · North East England
Killingworth
Killingworth in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–3 h
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
About
Killingworth is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Killingworth is a town in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, within the historic county of Northumberland. Killingworth was built as a new town in the 1960s, next to Killingworth Village, which existed for centuries before the new town was built. Other nearby villages include Forest Hall, West Moor and Backworth. Killingworth is linked to the rest of Tyne and Wear by bus routes. The town is not on the Tyne and Wear Metro network; its nearest Metro stations are Palmersville and Benton. The town of Killingworth in Australia is named after the British original because of its extensive coal mines.
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Background
Description
Killingworth originally consisted of local authority houses. The first houses at Angus Close, owned by the local authority, were built to house key workers for the British Gas Research Centre. The rest of Killingworth's estates were cul-de-sacs named "Garths" – all numbered, although Garths 1–3 never existed. The numbering was: 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, etc. In the 1990s the Garths located in West Bailey changed their names to street names with estates adopting patterns such as trees (Laburnum Court, Willow Gardens), birds (Dove Close, Chaffinch Way), Farne Islands (Crumstone Court, Longstone, Megstone), etc. The houses in most of the Garths in West Bailey (the west of Killingworth) were…
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- Coordinates
- 55.0318, -1.5557
- District
- North Tyneside
- Parish
- North Tyneside, unparished area
- Postcode
- NE12 6BP
- Parliamentary constituency
- Cramlington and Killingworth
Sources
- wikidata: Q2575452 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Killingworth (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Killingworth?
- Killingworth is in North-East England, United Kingdom (postcode NE12 6BP), in the parish of North Tyneside, unparished area.
- Is Killingworth free to visit?
- Yes, Killingworth is free to enter.
- How do I get to Killingworth?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode NE12 6BP. It sits within the Cramlington and Killingworth parliamentary constituency.