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North Shields

North Shields is a town in the borough of in , England. It is 8 miles north-east of and borders nearby and .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include North Shields and Christ Church.

Railway station
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is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the coastal town of . It is situated next to the Transport Hub, on the west side of Bedford Street and The Beacon Centre.

Church
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, North Shields, , is an Anglican church in the parish of North Shields , Diocese of Newcastle. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building,…

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

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Shields and Tynemouth.

Town
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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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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.

North Shields

Latitude
55.00877° or 55° 0′ 32″ north
Longitude
-1.4471° or 1° 26′ 50″ west
Population
39,700
Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB NSH
Open location code
9C7W2H53+G5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 297933306
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2641267
Wiki­data ID
Q746096
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“North Shields” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شيلدز الشمالية”
  • Asturian: “North Shields”
  • Basque: “North Shields”
  • Belarusian: “Норт-Шылдс”
  • Catalan: “North Shields”
  • Cebuano: “North Shields”
  • Chinese: “北希尔兹”
  • Dutch: “North Shields”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيلدز الشماليه”
  • Esperanto: “North Shields”
  • French: “North Shields”
  • German: “North Shields”
  • Hebrew: “נורת‘ שילדס”
  • Irish: “Shields Thuaidh”
  • Italian: “North Shields”
  • Japanese: “ノース・シールズ”
  • Ladin: “North Shields”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “North Shields”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “North Shields”
  • Norwegian: “North Shields”
  • Persian: “نورث شیلدز”
  • Polish: “North Shields”
  • Russian: “Норт-Шилдс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “North Shields”
  • Silesian: “North Shield”
  • Silesian: “North Shields”
  • Spanish: “North Shields”
  • Swedish: “North Shields, England”
  • Swedish: “North Shields”
  • Ukrainian: “Норт-Шилдс”
  • Urdu: “نارتھ شیلڈز”
  • Welsh: “North Shields”

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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 “North Shields”. Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.