Leadgate

Leadgate is a hamlet just outside Chopwell in southern Northumberland, England. It is 4.5 miles southeast of Stocksfield and 1 mile northwest of Chopwell.

Type: Hamlet
Description: hamlet near Chopwell in Northhumberland, England, United Kingdom
Also known as: “Leadgate, Northumberland”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St John the Evangelist and Chopwell Colliery.

St John the Evangelist

Church

Photo: Colin Edgar, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St John the Evangelist is a church.

Chopwell Colliery

Mine

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.

Chopwell War Memorial

Memorial

Photo: Anthony Foster, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chopwell and High Spen.

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 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.