Kibblesworth
Kibblesworth is a village 2 miles west of Birtley, Tyne and Wear, England. Kibblesworth was a mainly rural community until the development of the pit and brickworks and the resulting increase in population.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Peter Standing, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Angel of the North and Beamish Museum.
Angel of the North
Work of art
The Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Completed in 1998, it is seen by an estimated 33 million people every year due to its proximity to the A1 and A167 roads and the East Coast Main Line.
Beamish Museum
Museum
Photo: Barry Skeates, CC BY 2.0.
Beamish Museum is the first regional open-air museum, in England, located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum. Beamish Museum is situated 2 miles southwest of Kibblesworth.
Tyne Yard
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Tyne Yard is a railway yard in Birtley, England, on the East Coast Main Line, operated by DB Cargo UK. The yard is the major freight yard of the North East, with the majority of rail freight movements in Tyne and Wear from around Great Britain passing through the yard.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lamesley and Urpeth.
Lamesley
Village
Photo: Stephen Daglish, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lamesley is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,742.
Urpeth
Village
Urpeth is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated a short distance from Ouston and Beamish, near the border with Tyne and Wear. The parish population taken at the 2011 census was 3,630.
Ouston
Village
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ouston is a village in County Durham, about 8 miles south-west of Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England. The main village of Ouston is adjoined by the 1970s built housing estate known as Urpeth Grange but both are referred to colloquially as Ouston by locals. Ouston is situated 1½ miles southeast of Kibblesworth.
Kibblesworth
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Tyne and Wear, England, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Lamesley, Gateshead, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.90481° or 54° 54′ 17″ northLongitude
-1.61859° or 1° 37′ 7″ westElevation
151 feet (46 metres)Open location code
9C6WW93J+WHOpenStreetMap ID
node 29277745OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Swedish—“Kibblesworth” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Kibblesworth”
- French: “Kibblesworth”
- Irish: “Kibblesworth”
- Polish: “Kibblesworth”
- Swedish: “Kibblesworth”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Kibblesworth”. Photo: Peter Standing, CC BY-SA 2.0.