Blaydon
Blaydon is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, and historically in County Durham. Blaydon, and neighbouring Winlaton, which Blaydon is now contiguous with, form the town of Blaydon-on-Tyne.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 15,000 residents
- Description: town in Tyneside, England, UK
- Also known as: “Blaydon on Tyne” and “Blaydon-on-Tyne”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blaydon railway station and Path Head Watermill.
Blaydon railway station
Railway station
Photo: Steve McShane, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blaydon is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between Newcastle and Carlisle via Hexham. The station, situated 5 miles 39 chains west of Newcastle, serves the town of Blaydon, Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England.
Path Head Watermill
Museum
Path Head Mill is an 18th-century watermill at Summerhill on Blaydon Burn, between Blaydon and Stella, near Gateshead in north-east England. The Vale Mill Trust has been restoring the site to include a water-powered joiners' workshop and a visitor centre since 1994/1995.
Blaydon Bridge
Bridge
Photo: george hurrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blaydon Bridge is one of the main bridges crossing the River Tyne in North East England linking Scotswood in Newcastle upon Tyne and Blaydon in Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winlaton and Lemington.
Winlaton
Village
Winlaton is a village situated in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Historically in County Durham, it was incorporated into the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and Borough of Gateshead in 1974.
Lemington
Suburb
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lemington is an area and electoral ward in the Outer West End of Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England.
Swalwell
Village
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Swalwell is a village in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, in the United Kingdom.
Blaydon
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Gateshead, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.96462° or 54° 57′ 53″ northLongitude
-1.71153° or 1° 42′ 42″ westPopulation
15,000Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BLDOpen location code
9C6WX77Q+R9OpenStreetMap ID
node 21430932OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Blaydon” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Blaydon”
- Basque: “Blaydon-on-Tyne”
- Bengali: “বেডন”
- Cebuano: “Blaydon”
- Chinese: “布雷登”
- Czech: “Blaydon”
- Dutch: “Blaydon”
- French: “Blaydon”
- German: “Blaydon”
- Gujarati: “બ્લેડોન-ઑન-ટાઇન”
- Irish: “Blaydon-on-Tyne”
- Irish: “Blaydon”
- Italian: “Blaydon”
- Japanese: “ブレイドン”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ಲೇಡನ್-ಆನ್-ಟೈನ್”
- Korean: “블레이던”
- Lithuanian: “Bleidonas”
- Persian: “بلیدون آن تاین”
- Polish: “Blaydon”
- Portuguese: “Blaydon”
- Russian: “Блейдон-он-Тайн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Blaydon-on-Tyne”
- Slovak: “Blaydon”
- Spanish: “Blaydon”
- Swedish: “Blaydon”
- Tamil: “பிலேடோன் -அன் -டினே”
- Telugu: “బ్లాయ్దోన్ ఆన్ టైన్”
- Urdu: “بلایدون-ون-تینی”
- Welsh: “Blaydon-on-Tyne”
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