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South Shields

South Shields is a coastal port town in , , England; it lies on the south bank of the mouth of the . The town was known in Roman times as and as Caer Urfa by the Early Middle Ages.
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  • Type: Town with 83,700 residents
  • Description: town in Tyne and Wear, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Shields” and “South Shields, Durham”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arbeia and Tynemouth Priory and Castle.

Archaeological site
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was a large Roman fort in South Shields, , , now ruined, and which has been partially reconstructed. It was first excavated in the 1870s.

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

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The is a Grade II* listed monument in , England, dedicated to Vice Admiral Lord Cuthbert Collingwood. A Napoleonic-era admiral noted for being second-in-command to Admiral Lord Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar, Collingwood is sometimes referred to as the forgotten hero of Trafalgar.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tynemouth and Whitley Bay.

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is a large town in in northeast England, nine miles east of . It's the largest of a series of towns on the north bank of the Tyne estuary, running into North Shields to the west and Cullercoats to the north, also described on this page.

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is a seaside resort in in the northeast of England, with a population of around 36,000 in 2013. It was part of Northumberland until 1974 when the borough of North Tyneside was created within the metropolis of Tyne and Wear.

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on Tyne is a town in in the northeast of England. It's industrial, with a population of almost 44,000 in 2011, and lies four miles east of . It got its name as the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall.

South Shields

Latitude
54.9987° or 54° 59′ 56″ north
Longitude
-1.4322° or 1° 25′ 56″ west
Population
83,700
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SSH
Open location code
9C6WXHX9+F4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20960034
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2637329
Wiki­data ID
Q279000
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“South Shields” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شيلدز الجنوبية”
  • Armenian: “Սաութ Շիլդս”
  • Asturian: “South Shields”
  • Basque: “South Shields”
  • Belarusian: “Саўт-Шылдс”
  • Bengali: “সাউথ শিল্ড”
  • Breton: “South Shields”
  • Bulgarian: “Саут Шийлдс”
  • Catalan: “South Shields”
  • Cebuano: “South Shields”
  • Chinese: “南希尔兹”
  • Chinese: “南希尔德斯”
  • Chinese: “南希爾德斯”
  • Czech: “South Shields”
  • Dutch: “South Shields”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ساوث شيلدز”
  • Finnish: “South Shields”
  • French: “South Shields”
  • Galician: “South Shields”
  • German: “South Shields”
  • Gujarati: “દક્ષિણ શિલ્ડ્સ”
  • Hebrew: “סאות‘ שילדס”
  • Indonesian: “South Shields”
  • Irish: “Shields Theas”
  • Italian: “South Shields”
  • Japanese: “サウス・シールズ”
  • Kannada: “ಸೌತ್ ಶೀಲ್ಡ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “사우스실즈”
  • Ladin: “South Shields”
  • Latvian: “Sautšīldsa”
  • Lithuanian: “Saut Šildsas”
  • Northern Frisian: “South Shields”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “South Shields”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “South Shields”
  • Norwegian: “South Shields”
  • Persian: “ساوت شیلدز”
  • Polish: “South Shields”
  • Portuguese: “South Shields”
  • Romanian: “South Shields”
  • Russian: “Саут-Шилдс”
  • Serbian: “Саут Шилдс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “South Shields”
  • Silesian: “South Shields”
  • Slovenian: “South Shields”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ساوت شیلدز”
  • Spanish: “South Shields”
  • Swedish: “South Shields”
  • Tamil: “தெற்கு ஷீல்ட்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Саус-Шилдс”
  • Telugu: “సౌత్ షీల్డ్స్”
  • Ukrainian: “Саут-Шилдс”
  • Urdu: “ساؤتھ شیلڈز”
  • Welsh: “South Shields”

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Notable Places Nearby

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