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Wallsend

Wallsend on Tyne is a town in in the northeast of England. It's industrial, with a population of almost 44,000 in 2011, and lies four miles east of . It got its name as the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall.
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  • Type: Town with 42,700 residents
  • Description: town in North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Wallsend-on-Tyne”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Segedunum and Wallsend.

Archaeological site
Photo: Christine Westerback, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was a Roman fort at modern-day Wallsend, in . The fort lay at the eastern end of near the banks of the .

Railway station
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is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the town of , in , England. It joined the network on 14 November 1982, following the opening of the fourth phase of the network, between and via .

Hospital
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The is a health facility at Wallsend Green, Wallsend, , England. It is managed by Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jarrow and Hebburn.

Town
Photo: Mark Smiles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
South Tyneside is a borough in in northeast England, with a population in 2021 of 148,000. It's a series of towns that have been industrial since the Middle Ages, and that historically lay in County Durham.

Town
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is a town in the borough of , England. It was an urban district in from 1894 to 1974. It is on the south bank of the River Tyne between and and opposite Wallsend and .

Suburb
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is a residential suburb and electoral ward in the south-east of , in the county of , England.

Wallsend

Latitude
54.9912° or 54° 59′ 28″ north
Longitude
-1.5342° or 1° 32′ 3″ west
Population
42,700
Elevation
98 feet (30 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WTW
Open location code
9C6WXFR8+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27159431
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2634864
Wiki­data ID
Q1248150
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Wallsend” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ուոլսենդ”
  • Asturian: “Wallsend”
  • Basque: “Wallsend”
  • Belarusian: “Уолсенд”
  • Cebuano: “Wallsend”
  • Chinese: “沃爾森德”
  • Czech: “Wallsend”
  • Danish: “Wallsend”
  • Dutch: “Wallsend”
  • French: “Wallsend”
  • German: “Wallsend”
  • Greek: “Γουόλσεντ”
  • Hebrew: “וולסנד”
  • Irish: “Wallsend”
  • Italian: “Wallsend”
  • Japanese: “ウォールズエンド”
  • 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”
  • Slovenian: “Wallsend”
  • South Azerbaijani: “والسند”
  • Spanish: “Wallsend”
  • Swedish: “Wallsend”
  • Ukrainian: “Волсенд”
  • Urdu: “والسینڈ”
  • Welsh: “Wallsend”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Wallsend”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.