Longbenton
Longbenton is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, and former British Rail station, in the English metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear. It was originally opened on 14 July 1947 by the North Eastern Railway, and became part of the Tyne and Wear Metro on 11 August 1980.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: metro station in Tyne & Wear, England, UK
- Also known as: “Longbenton metro station” and “Longbenton Metro station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Mary Magdalene and Freeman Hospital.
St Mary Magdalene
Church
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary Magdalene is a church, which is situated 1,200 feet north of Longbenton.
Freeman Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Freeman Hospital is an 800-bed tertiary referral centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The hospital is managed by the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is a teaching hospital for Newcastle University. Freeman Hospital is situated 2,300 feet south of Longbenton.
St Francis
Church
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Francis is a church, which is situated 2,100 feet south of Longbenton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include High Heaton and Gosforth.
High Heaton
Suburb
Heaton is a district and suburb in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, in Tyne and Wear, England, two miles east of the city centre. It is bordered by the neighbouring areas of Walkergate to the east, Jesmond to the north west, Byker to the south, and Sandyford to the west.
Gosforth
Suburb
Photo: Mankind 2k, CC BY 3.0.
Gosforth is an area of Newcastle upon Tyne, in Tyne and Wear, England, situated north of the city centre. It constituted a separate urban district of Northumberland from 1895 until 1974 before officially merging with the city of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Jesmond
Suburb
Photo: Roger Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Jesmond is a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, situated north of the city centre and to the east of the Town Moor. Jesmond is considered to be one of the most affluent suburbs of Newcastle upon Tyne, with higher average house prices than most other areas of the city.
Longbenton
- Categories: Tyne and Wear Metro station, through station, station, and transportation
- Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.00892° or 55° 0′ 32″ northLongitude
-1.5916° or 1° 35′ 30″ westElevation
187 feet (57 metres)Operator
NexusNetwork
Tyne and Wear MetroOpen location code
9C7W2C55+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 4524066897OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationGeoNames ID
7691663Wikidata ID
Q6673608
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In Other Languages
From French to Ukrainian—“Longbenton” goes by many names.
- French: “Longbenton”
- Japanese: “ロングベントン駅”
- Ukrainian: “Лонгбентон”
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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 “Longbenton”. Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.