Wallsend
Wallsend on Tyne is a town in Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England. It's industrial, with a population of almost 44,000 in 2011, and lies four miles east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It got its name as the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall.
- Type: Town with 42,700 residents
- Description: town in North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Wallsend-on-Tyne” and “ウォールズエンド”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Segedunum and Wallsend.
Segedunum
Archaeological site
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jarrow and Hebburn.
Wallsend
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.9912° or 54° 59′ 28″ north
Longitude
-1.5342° or 1° 32′ 3″ west
Population
42,700
Elevation
98 feet (30 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB WTW
Open location code
9C6WXFR8+F8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Wallsend” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ուոլսենդ”
- Asturian: “Wallsend”
- Basque: “Wallsend”
- Belarusian: “Уолсенд”
- Belarusian: “Ўолсэнд”
- Cebuano: “Wallsend”
- Chinese: “沃爾森德”
- Danish: “Wallsend”
- Dutch: “Wallsend”
- French: “Wallsend”
- German: “Wallsend”
- Greek: “Γουόλσεντ”
- Hebrew: “וולסנד”
- Irish: “Wallsend”
- Italian: “Wallsend”
- Japanese: “ウォールセンド”
- Korean: “월센드”
- Ladin: “Wallsend”
- Latin: “Wallsend”
- Latvian: “Volsenda”
- Lithuanian: “Volsendas”
- Northern Frisian: “Wallsend”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wallsend”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wallsend”
- Norwegian: “Wallsend”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Weallesende”
- Persian: “والزند”
- Persian: “وایسند”
- Polish: “Wallsend”
- Romanian: “Wallsend”
- Russian: “Уолсенд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wallsend”
- Silesian: “Wallsend”
- Slovenian: “Wallsend”
- South Azerbaijani: “والسند”
- Spanish: “Wallsend”
- Swedish: “Wallsend”
- Ukrainian: “Волсенд”
- Urdu: “والسینڈ”
- Welsh: “Wallsend”
- “Wallsend”
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