Heavy Gate
Heavy Gate is a locality in Hedley, Northumberland, England. Heavy Gate is situated nearby to the locality Broomfield, as well as near Horse Gate.Places of Interest
Highlights include St John the Evangelist and St Patricks Church High Spen.
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.
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
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.
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 southwest of Heavy Gate.
Heavy Gate
- Type: Locality
- Location: Hedley, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.92599° or 54° 55′ 34″ northLongitude
-1.80219° or 1° 48′ 8″ westOpen location code
9C6WW5GX+94OpenStreetMap ID
node 389454387OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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