High Spen
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Patricks Church High Spen and St John the Evangelist.
Derwent Park
Park
Derwent Park is situated in Rowlands Gill, Tyne and Wear, England. The park is often incorrectly called Rowlands Gill Park as a result. The park has a caravan site and has many play areas for children. Derwent Park is situated 2 miles southeast of High Spen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greenside and Rowlands Gill.
Greenside
Village
Photo: Steve McShane, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Greenside is a village in the extreme west of the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. Once an independent village in County Durham, it became incorporated into Tyne and Wear in 1974 and then the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in 1986.
Rowlands Gill
Village
Rowlands Gill is a village on the north bank of the River Derwent, in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. The Gibside Estate is near the town.
Chopwell
Village
Photo: Chris Tweedy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
High Spen
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Tyne and Wear, England, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Gateshead, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.93281° or 54° 55′ 58″ northLongitude
-1.78297° or 1° 46′ 59″ westElevation
505 feet (154 metres)Open location code
9C6WW6M8+4ROpenStreetMap ID
node 21428464OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Polish—“High Spen” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “High Spen”
- French: “High Spen”
- Irish: “High Spen”
- Polish: “High Spen”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include High Spen Primary School and RV Storage.
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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 “High Spen”. Photo: sidibousaid, CC BY 2.0.