Oak Plantation
Oak Plantation is a forest in Lamesley, Gateshead, England. Oak Plantation is situated nearby to the hamlet Street Gate, as well as near the village Sunniside.Places of Interest
Highlights include Ravensworth Castle and Washing Wells Roman Fort.
Ravensworth Castle
Ruins
Photo: john tollitt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ravensworth Castle is a ruinous Grade II* listed building and a scheduled monument situated at Lamesley, Tyne and Wear, England. The building has been destroyed and rebuilt a number of times, and was the seat of the Ravensworth barons, the Liddells.
Washing Wells Roman Fort
Archaeological site
Washing Wells Roman Fort, was a fort in the Roman province of Britannia. Its ruins are located at southeast of Whickham in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.
Beamish Museum
Museum
Photo: Barry Skeates, CC BY 2.0.
Beamish Museum is an open-air museum located in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum. By displaying duplicates or replaceable items, it was also an early example of the now commonplace practice of museums allowing visitors to touch objects.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beamish and Gateshead.
Beamish
Photo: Barry Skeates, CC BY 2.0.
Beamish is a village in County Durham 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.
Gateshead
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England. It stands on the south bank of the River Tyne looking across to Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Photo: Tagishsimon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newcastle upon Tyne is a city in Tyne and Wear in the north-east of England. It's an industrial but lively, cultural place on the north bank of the River Tyne, with a population of just over 300,000 in 2019, and another half a million residing in its outlying areas.
Oak Plantation
- Type: Forest
- Location: Lamesley, Gateshead, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.9192° or 54° 55′ 9″ northLongitude
-1.6494° or 1° 38′ 58″ westOpen location code
9C6WW992+M7OpenStreetMap ID
way 156263376OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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