Whitley Bay
Whitley Bay is a seaside resort in Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England, with a population of around 36,000 in 2013. It was part of Northumberland until 1974 when the borough of North Tyneside was created within the metropolis of Tyne and Wear.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 38,100 residents
- Description: seaside town on the north east coast of England
- Also known as: “Whitley”
Places of Interest
Highlights include PLAYHOUSE and Dove Marine Laboratory.
PLAYHOUSE
Theater building
Photo: R J McNaughton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Playhouse, Whitley Bay is a state of the art, 630 seater auditorium in the coastal resort of Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear. Having undergone a major and completed refurbishment by North Tyneside Council in 2009, the contemporary theatre has a glass foyer, front of house facilities, box office and bar facilities.
Dove Marine Laboratory
University
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Dove Marine Laboratory is a research and teaching laboratory which forms part of the School of Marine Science and Technology within Newcastle University in the United Kingdom.
Whitley Bay
Railway station
Photo: Ed Webster, CC BY 2.0.
Whitley Bay is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the coastal town of Whitley Bay, North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 11 August 1980, following the opening of the first phase of the network, between Haymarket and Tynemouth via Four Lane Ends.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tynemouth and Monkseaton.
Tynemouth
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tynemouth is a large town in Tyne and Wear in northeast England, nine miles east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It's the largest of a series of towns on the north bank of the Tyne estuary, running into North Shields to the west and Cullercoats to the north, also described on this page.
Monkseaton
Suburb
Monkseaton is an area of Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. Historically in Northumberland, it is in the north-east of the borough, 3⁄4 mile from the North Sea coast and 1+1⁄2 mi north of the River Tyne at North Shields.
North Shields
Town
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
North Shields is a town in the borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It is 8 miles north-east of Newcastle upon Tyne and borders nearby Wallsend and Tynemouth. North Shields is situated 2½ miles south of Whitley Bay.
Whitley Bay
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.0422° or 55° 2′ 32″ northLongitude
-1.4454° or 1° 26′ 44″ westPopulation
38,100Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WTLOpen location code
9C7W2HR3+VROpenStreetMap ID
node 27159426OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Whitley Bay” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Whitley Bay”
- Asturian: “Whitley Bay”
- Basque: “Whitley Bay”
- Belarusian: “Ўітлі-Бэй”
- Cebuano: “Whitley Bay”
- Chinese: “惠特利灣”
- Czech: “Whitley Bay”
- Dutch: “Whitley Bay”
- French: “Whitley Bay”
- German: “Whitley Bay”
- Hebrew: “וויטלי ביי”
- Irish: “Whitley Bay”
- Italian: “Whitley Bay”
- Japanese: “ウィットリー・ベイ”
- Ladin: “Whitley Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Whitley Bay”
- Persian: “ویتلی بی”
- Polish: “Whitley Bay”
- Portuguese: “Whitley Bay”
- Romanian: “Whitley Bay”
- Russian: “Уитли-Бэй”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Whitley Bay”
- Slovak: “Whitley Bay”
- Swedish: “Whitley Bay”
- Ukrainian: “Вітлі-Бей”
- Welsh: “Whitley Bay”
- “Whitley Bay”
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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 “Whitley Bay”. Photo: PaulTurner, CC BY-SA 4.0.