Moorbank Botanic Gardens
The Moorbank Botanic Garden was a university botanical garden in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It occupied a 3 hectares site on Claremont Road to the west of the main Newcastle University campus, and was developed in the 1920s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Park
- Description: university botanical garden in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
- Also known as: “Moorbank Botanic Garden”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St James’ Park and Town Moor.
St James’ Park
Stadium
Photo: Arne mueseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
St James' Park is a football stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is the home of Newcastle United. With a seating capacity of 52,264, it is the 9th largest football stadium in England. St James’ Park is situated 1 mile southeast of Moorbank Botanic Gardens.
Town Moor
Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Town Moor is an area of common land in Newcastle upon Tyne in northern England. It covers an area of around 1,000 acres, making it larger than Hyde Park and Hampstead Heath combined. Town Moor is situated 2,500 feet northeast of Moorbank Botanic Gardens.
Leazes Park
Park
Photo: MagpieNI, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Leazes Park is an urban park in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Grade II listed, it is the city's oldest park, opened in 1873, and lies to the west of the city centre. Leazes Park is situated 3,400 feet southeast of Moorbank Botanic Gardens.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Spital Tongues and Arthur’s Hill.
Spital Tongues
Suburb
Spital Tongues is a district of Newcastle upon Tyne, located due north-west of the Newcastle City Centre. Its unusual name is believed to be derived from spital – a corruption of the word hospital, commonly found in British place names - and tongues, meaning outlying pieces of land.
Arthur’s Hill
Suburb
Arthur's Hill is a district of Newcastle upon Tyne. It lies approximately 1 mile west of Newcastle City Centre. It is bordered by Fenham to the west, Elswick to the south, and Spital Tongues to the north west.
Fenham
Suburb
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fenham is an area of the west-end of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It lies to the west of the city centre, and is bounded on the north and east by a large area of open land known as the Town Moor.
Moorbank Botanic Gardens
- Categories: botanical garden and recreation area
- Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.98654° or 54° 59′ 12″ northLongitude
-1.63562° or 1° 38′ 8″ westOpen location code
9C6WX9P7+JQOpenStreetMap ID
way 230809335OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkWikidata ID
Q6908082
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In Other Languages
From German to Spanish—“Moorbank Botanic Gardens” goes by many names.
- German: “Moorbank Garden”
- Malayalam: “മൂർബാങ്ക് ബൊട്ടാണിക് ഗാർഡൻസ്”
- Spanish: “Jardin Botanico Moorbank”
- Spanish: “Jardin Botánico Moorbank”
- Spanish: “Jardín Botanico Moorbank”
- Spanish: “Jardín Botánico Moorbank”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hunters Moor and Cow Hill.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Moorbank Botanic Gardens”. Photo: sidibousaid, CC BY 2.0.