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North Gosforth

North Gosforth is a suburb and civil parish in the in , England. It is north of the city centre, and has a population of 3,527, increasing to 5,639 at the 2011 Census.
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  • Type: Suburb with 5,670 residents
  • Description: village in Tyne and Wear, England, UK
  • Also known as: “North Gosforth, Tyne and Wear”

Places of Interest

Highlights include South Gosforth and Wansbeck Road.

Railway station
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is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, and former British Rail station, serving the suburb of , in , England.

Railway station
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is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the suburbs of and in the English city of . It opened in 1981 and is situated next to, and partly over, the bridge carrying the metro line over the .

Railway station
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Fawdon is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the suburbs of and , in , England. It was opened in 1981, adjacent to the level crossing carrying Fawdon Lane across the railway and with staggered platforms on either side of the level crossing.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wallsend and Gosforth.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Suburb
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is an area of , in , England, situated north of the city centre. It constituted a separate urban district of from 1895 until 1974 before officially merging with the city of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Village
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, also occasionally misspelled as Wide Open, is a village in the metropolitan borough of , England, around 5 miles north of .

North Gosforth

Latitude
55.0264° or 55° 1′ 35″ north
Longitude
-1.6173° or 1° 37′ 2″ west
Population
5,670
Elevation
174 feet (53 metres)
Open location code
9C7W29GM+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4786820072
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7296611
Wiki­data ID
Q2708002
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Urdu—“North Gosforth” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “উত্তর গোসফোর্থ”
  • Cebuano: “North Gosforth”
  • Chinese: “North Gosforth”
  • Chinese: “北哥斯佛夫”
  • Dutch: “North Gosforth”
  • French: “North Gosforth”
  • German: “North Gosforth”
  • Gujarati: “ઉત્તર ગોસફોર્થ”
  • Irish: “North Gosforth”
  • Japanese: “北ゴスフォース”
  • Kannada: “ನಾರ್ತ್ ಗೋಸ್ಫೋರ್ತ್”
  • Korean: “노스 고스포트”
  • Ladin: “North Gosforth”
  • Lithuanian: “Nort Gosfortas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “North Gosforth”
  • Persian: “نورث گاسفورث”
  • Polish: “North Gosforth”
  • Portuguese: “North Gosforth”
  • Russian: “Норф-Госфорт”
  • Spanish: “North Gosforth”
  • Swedish: “North Gosforth”
  • Tamil: “வடக்கு கோசபோர்த்”
  • Telugu: “నార్త్ గోస్ఫోర్త్”
  • Turkish: “North Gosforth”
  • Urdu: “نارتھ جوسفورتھ”
  • “North Gosforth”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include North Gosforth Chapel and McCracken Park.

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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 Gosforth”. Photo: C G Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.