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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chris Tweedy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St John the Evangelist and Chopwell Colliery.
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 Hamsterley and Low Westwood.
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.
Low Westwood
Village
Low Westwood is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated immediately to the west of Hamsterley. Low Westwood is probably best known for Hamsterley Christ Church and Derwent care home.
High Spen
Village
High Spen is an old mining village in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, historically part of County Durham, England. First recorded in 1379 as a small hamlet called ‘Spen’, the settlement grew in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries with the growth of coal mining in the region.
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 Swedish—“Chopwell” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Chopwell”
- French: “Chopwell”
- Irish: “Chopwell”
- Polish: “Chopwell”
- Swedish: “Chopwell”
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