Killingworth
Sign in to saveKillingworth is a town in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, within the historic county of Northumberland.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Killingworth
- UK place.population
- 20,079
- UK place.population_ref
- (Killingworth and Camperdown wards 2011)
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- North Tyneside
- UK place.region
- North East England
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- Tyne and Wear
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Cramlington and Killingworth
- UK place.post_town
- NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
- UK place.postcode_district
- NE12
- UK place.postcode_area
- NE
- UK place.dial_code
- 0191
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NZ2777
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Culture
- History
- Medieval
- Division
- 19th century
- New town
- Killingworth Colliery
- Housing
- The Garth Estates
- Private Estates
- The Towers
- Decline
- Town centre
- History of commerce
- White Swan Centre
- Transport
- Schools
- References
- External links
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Killingworth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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