Skip to content
Lamesley

IpswichEdits / Mapillary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · CC BY-SA 4.0

EntityQ2095219· pop 12· linked from 185 articles

Also known as Lamesley, Tyne and Wear

Lamesley is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,742. The village is on the southern outskirts of Gateshead, near to Birtley. The parish includes Kibblesworth, Lamesley village, Eighton Banks and Northside, Birtley which is predominantly private housing in neighbourhoods named The Hollys, Long Bank, Northdene and Crathie. The ruined Ravensworth Castle is also in Lamesley.

Weather now

cached 382h ago
28°clear sky
67% 2.5 m/s OpenWeatherMap

7-day forecast

via Open-Meteo

Place details

Locality
Gateshead
Region
England
Country
United Kingdom
Population
3,928
Timezone
Europe/London

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Key facts

UK place.country
England
UK place.official_name
Lamesley
UK place.static_image_name
Fly-Angel.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption
The Angel of the North is located in Lamesley civil parish.
UK place.population
3742
UK place.population_ref
(United Kingdom Census 2011)
UK place.area_total_km2
22.9
UK place.civil_parish
Lamesley
UK place.metropolitan_borough
Gateshead
UK place.region
North East England
UK place.metropolitan_county
Tyne and Wear
UK place.constituency_westminster
Washington and Gateshead South
UK place.post_town
GATESHEAD
UK place.postcode_district
NE11
UK place.postcode_area
NE
UK place.dial_code
0191
UK place.os_grid_reference
NZ251580

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Population
3742
Area
22.9
Image
St. Andrew, Lamesley - geograph.org.uk - 94786.jpg
Dialing code
0191
Show 3 more facts
Commons category
Lamesley
OS grid reference
NZ251580
Sources (3)

via Wikidata · CC0

~2 min read

Article

4 sections
Contents
  • Demography
  • History
  • References
  • External links

Lamesley is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,742. The village is on the southern outskirts of Gateshead, near to Birtley. The parish includes Kibblesworth, Lamesley village, Eighton Banks and Northside, Birtley which is predominantly private housing in neighbourhoods named The Hollys, Long Bank, Northdene and Crathie. The ruined Ravensworth Castle is also in Lamesley.

A hilltop contemporary sculpture in the parish is the Angel of the North by Antony Gormley on a minor hilltop which is lower than the adjoining Low Fell and High Fell outside the parish.

Gallery (2)

On the map

2 mapped locations

Available in 11 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0

Connections

Categories