Westoe
Westoe was originally a village near South Shields, in the South Tyneside district, in Tyne and Wear, England, but has since become part of the town and is now used to refer to the area of the town where the village once was.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Terry Whalebone, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include South Tyneside College and Chichester.
South Tyneside College
College
Photo: Terry Whalebone, CC BY 2.0.
South Tyneside College is a large further education college in South Tyneside in North East England. Its main site is in the town of South Shields. The college offers part-time and full-time courses for young students and adults.
Chichester
Railway station
Photo: Mankind 2k, CC BY 2.5.
Chichester is a station on the Tyne and Wear Metro serving the Chichester, Laygate, Westoe and West Park areas of South Tyneside, as well as the nearby South Tyneside College campus.
Arbeia
Archaeological site
Photo: Thryduulf, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arbeia was a large Roman fort in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England, now ruined, and which has been partially reconstructed. It was first excavated in the 1870s.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Harton and South Shields.
Harton
Suburb
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Harton is a suburban area of South Shields, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It was historically a village, however as the urban area grew it merged with its adjacent villages to become part of the town.
South Shields
Town
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
South Shields is a coastal port town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England; it lies on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. The town was known in Roman times as Arbeia and as Caer Urfa by the Early Middle Ages.
Westoe
- Type: Suburb
- Description: area in South Shields, South Tyneside, United Kingdom
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: South Tyneside, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.98731° or 54° 59′ 14″ northLongitude
-1.42227° or 1° 25′ 20″ westElevation
128 feet (39 metres)Open location code
9C6WXHPH+W3OpenStreetMap ID
node 6808238109OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Irish to Urdu—“Westoe” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Westoe”
- Polish: “Westoe”
- Swedish: “Westoe”
- Urdu: “ویسٹو”
- “Westoe”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Westoe”. Photo: Terry Whalebone, CC BY 2.0.