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Greenside

Greenside is a village in the extreme west of the metropolitan county of , England. Once an independent village in , it became incorporated into Tyne and Wear in 1974 and then the in 1986.
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  • Type: Village with 2,560 residents
  • Description: village in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England
  • Also known as: “Greenside, Tyne and Wear”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Agnes RC school and Wylam railway station.

School
Crawcrook is a village in the in , England. The population taken at the 2021 Census of the Gateshead ward was 9,058, increasing from 8,841 in 2011. The village is historically part of .

Railway station
Photo: RHaworth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wylam is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between and via . The station, situated 9 miles 71 chains west of Newcastle, serves the village of in , England. is situated 2 miles northwest of Greenside.

Museum
Photo: Ken Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
George Stephenson's Birthplace is the 18th-century stone cottage home of rail pioneer George Stephenson. Located along the north bank of the in the village of , , the cottage is owned by the National Trust and until recently it was open to the public as a historic house museum. is situated 2 miles north of Greenside.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Crawcrook and High Spen.

Village
is a village in the in , England. The population taken at the 2021 Census of the Gateshead ward was 9,058, increasing from 8,841 in 2011. The village is historically part of .

Village
is an old mining village in the , historically part of , 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.

Town
Photo: Alan Fearon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , England. It is in the , historically part of . In 2011, the population of the , Crookhill and Stella ward was 8,146. It is 6 miles west of . is situated 2 miles northeast of Greenside.

Greenside

Latitude
54.95174° or 54° 57′ 6″ north
Longitude
-1.78845° or 1° 47′ 18″ west
Population
2,560
Elevation
495 feet (151 metres)
Open location code
9C6WX626+MJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 331664189
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
12266052
Wiki­data ID
Q9276224
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Welsh—“Greenside” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Greenside”
  • French: “Greenside”
  • Irish: “Greenside”
  • Polish: “Greenside”
  • Welsh: “Greenside”

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Highlights include Greenside Primary School and Greenside Methodist Church.

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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 “Greenside”. Photo: Steve McShane, CC BY-SA 2.0.