Longacre Wood

Longacre Wood is a forest in , , . Longacre Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet , as well as near the village .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bowes Railway and Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Museum
Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The , built by George Stephenson in 1826, is the world's only operational preserved standard gauge cable railway system. It was built to transport coal from pits in to boats on the .

Hospital
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is based in in , . It is managed by Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Church
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St John's Church, Gateshead Fell, is in Church Road, , , , England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Gateshead, the archdeaconry of Sunderland, and the diocese of Durham.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Washington and Gateshead.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in in the northeast of England. It was a small mining village but from 1964 became the core of a planned New Town, with a population of over 67,000 in 2011.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in in the northeast of England. It stands on the south bank of the River Tyne looking across to on the north bank.

Photo: Barry Skeates, CC BY 2.0.
is a village in in northeast England. The village is just a straggle of miners' houses and the only reason to visit is the extensive open-air museum. Stanley is a former mining town two miles west, with a population of 19,427 in 2021.

Longacre Wood

Latitude
54.9155° or 54° 54′ 56″ north
Longitude
-1.5925° or 1° 35′ 33″ west
Open location code
9C6WWC84+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 136072041
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­wood
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