Dunston
Dunston is a western area of the town of Gateshead on the south bank of the River Tyne, in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, North East England. Dunston had a population of 18,326 at the 2011 Census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: area of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead
- Also known as: “Dunston, Tyne and Wear”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dunston railway station and Saint Nicholas With Christ Church.
Dunston railway station
Railway station
Photo: Thryduulf, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dunston is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between Newcastle and Carlisle via Hexham. The station, situated 2 miles 23 chains west of Newcastle, serves the suburb of Dunston, Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England.
Kings Meadow Island
Ruins
Photo: Thomas Miles Richardson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kings Meadow Island was a flat island in the River Tyne in Northumberland, between Elswick on the north bank and Dunston on the south, near Gateshead, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elswick and Lobley Hill.
Lobley Hill
Suburb
Photo: Steve McShane, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lobley Hill is located in the west of the old County Borough of Gateshead within the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, North East England having been previously part of the parish of Whickham.
Whickham
Town
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whickham is a village in Tyne and Wear, North East England, within the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. The village is on high ground overlooking the River Tyne and 5 miles south-west of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Dunston
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Gateshead, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.95393° or 54° 57′ 14″ northLongitude
-1.64594° or 1° 38′ 45″ westElevation
85 feet (26 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB DTNOpen location code
9C6WX933+HJOpenStreetMap ID
node 331663737OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2650650Wikidata ID
Q2389953
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Slovenian—“Dunston” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Դանստոն”
- Asturian: “Dunston”
- Chinese: “邓斯顿”
- Dutch: “Dunston”
- French: “Dunston”
- Hebrew: “דנסטון”
- Irish: “Dunston,Tyne and Wear”
- Italian: “Dunston”
- Japanese: “ダンストン”
- Luxembourgish: “Dunston”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dunston”
- Polish: “Dunston”
- Russian: “Данстон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dunston, Tyne and Wear”
- Slovenian: “Dunston”
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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 “Dunston”. Photo: Steve McShane, CC BY-SA 2.0.