Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear travel guide

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   Turbinia

   Turbinia is the first steam turbine-powered steamship.

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   Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey

   The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Monkwearmouth–Jarrow, known simply as Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey, was a Benedictine double monastery in the Kingdom of Northumbria, England.

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   3© The original uploader was Soloist at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0

   Newcastle Cathedral

   Newcastle Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Nicholas, is a Church of England cathedral in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England.

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   Newcastle upon Tyne Castle

   The Castle, Newcastle, or Newcastle Castle is a medieval fortification in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, built on the site of the fortress that gave the City of Newcastle its name.

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   Arbeia

   Arbeia was a large Roman fort in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England, now ruined and partially reconstructed. It was first excavated in the 1870s.

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   St Mary's Cathedral

   The Cathedral Church of St Mary is a Catholic cathedral in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. It is the mother church of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle and seat of the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.

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   Beamish, The Living Museum of The North

   Beamish Museum is an open-air museum located in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum.

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   Castrum Segedunum

   Segedunum was a Roman fort at modern-day Wallsend, North Tyneside in North East England. The fort lay at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall near the banks of the River Tyne.

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   Prudhoe Castle

   Prudhoe Castle is a ruined medieval English castle situated on the south bank of the River Tyne at Prudhoe, Northumberland, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building.

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    Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

    Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (also known simply as (the) Baltic, stylised as BALTIC) is a centre for contemporary art located on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.

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   Lumley Castle

   Lumley Castle is a 14th-century quadrangular castle at Chester-le-Street in the North of England, near the city Durham, and a property of the Earl of Scarbrough. It is a Grade I listed building.

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   Grey's Monument

   Grey's Monument is a Grade I-listed monument in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was built in 1838 in recognition of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834.

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   Spanish City

   The Spanish City is a dining and leisure centre in Whitley Bay, a seaside town in North Tyneside, Tyne & Wear, England.

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   Pons Aelius

   Pons Aelius (Latin for "Aelian Bridge"), or Newcastle Roman Fort, was an auxiliary castra and small Roman settlement on Hadrian's Wall in the Roman province of Britannia Inferior (northern England), situated on the north…

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   Hylton Castle

   Hylton Castle ( HIL-tən) is a stone castle in the North Hylton area of Sunderland, England.

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   Lambton Castle

   Lambton Castle stands above Chester-le-Street, County Durham and is a stately home, the ancestral seat of the Lambton family, the Earls of Durham. It is listed in the mid-category of listed building, Grade II*.

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   Tynemouth Castle and Priory

   Tynemouth Priory and Castle is an historic site located on a promontory at the mouth of the Tyne at Tynemouth. The medieval Benedictine priory was protected by walls, towers, and a gatehouse.

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   Darras Hall

   Darras Hall is an upland housing estate located in the village of Ponteland, in the civil parish of Ponteland, in Northumberland, England.

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   Grainger Town

   Grainger Town is the historic commercial centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It covers approximately 36 ha.

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    Leazes Park

    Leazes Park is an urban park in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Grade II listed, it is the city's oldest park, opened in 1873, and lies to the west of the city centre.

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