Town Moor
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.Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Common land
- Description: grass pasture in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St James’ Park and Moorbank Botanic Gardens.
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 south of Town Moor.
Moorbank Botanic Gardens
Park
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. Moorbank Botanic Gardens is situated 2,500 feet southwest of Town Moor.
Exhibition Park
Park
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Exhibition Park is a public park connected to the south-eastern corner of the Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The park is home to numerous facilities including sports areas, a boating lake, playgrounds and a skatepark. Exhibition Park is situated 2,400 feet southeast of Town Moor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Spital Tongues and Jesmond.
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.
Jesmond
Suburb
Photo: Roger Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Jesmond is a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, situated north of the city centre and to the east of the Town Moor. Jesmond is considered to be one of the most affluent suburbs of Newcastle upon Tyne, with higher average house prices than most other areas of the city.
Haymarket
Suburb
Haymarket is an area in the north of central Newcastle upon Tyne. The area has several transport hubs including Eldon Square bus station, Haymarket bus station and Haymarket Metro station.
Town Moor
- Categories: urban green space, recreation area, and grassland
- Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.98939° or 54° 59′ 22″ northLongitude
-1.62485° or 1° 37′ 30″ westOpen location code
9C6WX9QG+Q3OpenStreetMap ID
way 4638836OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=commonOpenStreetMap feature
natural=grasslandWikidata ID
Q11898308
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In Other Languages
From Finnish to Korean—“Town Moor” goes by many names.
- Finnish: “Town Moor”
- Korean: “타운 무어”
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