Chopwell
Chopwell is a village in the Gateshead district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England, 3 miles west of Rowlands Gill and 1 mile north of Hamsterley.Photo: Chris Tweedy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chopwell War Memorial and St John the Evangelist.
Chopwell Colliery
Mine
Chopwell Colliery was a coal mine situated at Chopwell, in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. The pit was first sunk in 1781, and was closed on 25 November 1966.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blackhall Mill and Leadgate.
Leadgate
Hamlet
Leadgate is a hamlet just outside Chopwell in southern Northumberland, England. It is 4.5 miles southeast of Stocksfield and 1 mile northwest of Chopwell.
Hamsterley
Village
Hamsterley is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated to the north of Consett and borders the hamlet of Low Westwood. The name Hamsterley possibly derives from the Old English ‘hamstra’, meaning a corn weevil and ‘ley’ meaning clearing, hence a clearing frequented by corn weevils, perhaps indicating the poor quality of farming in the area.
Chopwell
- Type: Village with 3,100 residents
- Description: village in Tyne and Wear, England, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Gateshead, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.91946° or 54° 55′ 10″ northLongitude
-1.81331° or 1° 48′ 48″ westPopulation
3,100Elevation
482 feet (147 metres)Open location code
9C6WW59P+QMOpenStreetMap ID
node 21431025OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
9260854Wikidata ID
Q5104893
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Chopwell” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Chopwell”
- French: “Chopwell”
- Irish: “Chopwell”
- Polish: “Chopwell”
- Swedish: “Chopwell”
- Urdu: “چوپویل”
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