Byker
Byker is a district in the east of the city and metropolitan borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. Home to the Byker Wall estate, made famous by TV series Byker Grove, Byker's population was recorded at 12,206 in the 2011 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: area and electoral ward in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Byker Ward”
Places of Interest
Highlights include East End Library and Byker Metro station.
Byker Metro station
Railway station
Photo: Mankind 2k, CC BY 3.0.
Byker is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the suburb of Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 14 November 1982, following the opening of the fourth phase of the network, between Tynemouth and St James via Wallsend.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Heaton and Battlefield.
Heaton
Suburb
Photo: hayley green, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Heaton is a district and suburb in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, in Tyne and Wear, England, two miles east of the city centre. It is bordered by the neighbouring areas of Walkergate to the east, Jesmond to the north west, Byker to the south, and Sandyford to the west.
Sandyford
Suburb
Sandyford is a small district in central Newcastle upon Tyne. It represents the north-eastern border of central Newcastle, with the suburbs of Jesmond to the north and Heaton to the east.
Byker
- Categories: inner suburb, ward or electoral division of the United Kingdom, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.9772° or 54° 58′ 38″ northLongitude
-1.57794° or 1° 34′ 41″ westElevation
115 feet (35 metres)Open location code
9C6WXCGC+VROpenStreetMap ID
node 27629064OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Byker” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Byker”
- Finnish: “Byker”
- Irish: “Byker”
- Japanese: “バイカー”
- Ladin: “Byker”
- Polish: “Byker”
- Swedish: “Byker”
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