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.

Vindomora

Archaeological site

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Vindomora was an auxiliary fort on Dere Street, in the province of Lower Britain. Its ruins, now known as Ebchester Roman Fort, are situated at Ebchester in the English county of Durham, to the north of Consett and 12 miles west-south-west from Newcastle upon Tyne. Vindomora is situated 2½ miles south of Leadgate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chopwell and High Spen.

Chopwell

Village

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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

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. High Spen is situated 2 miles east of Leadgate.

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. Hamsterley is situated 2 miles south of Leadgate.

Leadgate

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Hedley, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.93048° or 54° 55′ 50″ north

Longitude

-1.82787° or 1° 49′ 40″ west

Elevation

761 feet (232 metres)

Open location code

9C6WW5JC+5V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 29637866

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

13281129

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