57-672: The Ponteland Railway was a 7-mile (11 km) single-track branch line, which linked Gosforth in Tyne and Wear with Ponteland in Northumberland . A 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 -mile (2 km) sub-branch line also ran between Ponteland and Darras Hall . The branch line between South Gosforth and Ponteland opened to passengers in June 1905, with the sub-branch line to Darras Hall opening in October 1913. After proving to be unpopular,
114-515: A McColls convenience store, which has also now closed. The car park on the corner of the High Street and Salters Road is the former site of a primary school. In spring 2009 local councillors, Trinity Church and Gavin Black (agent for Gosforth Shopping Centre) were working on a strategy for developing Gosforth High Street. Gavin Black were wishing to use a covered entrance near Trinity, bring
171-656: A county council . In England and Wales , urban districts and rural districts were created in 1894 by the Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) as subdivisions of administrative counties . A similar model of urban and rural districts was also established in Ireland in 1899, which continued separately in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after 1921. They replaced
228-645: A decade was Graham Wylie , co-founder of the Sage Group , which itself was headquartered just outside Gosforth in the North Park development, who had bought it for £9.25 million. The Brandling Arms pub on the High Street has its own local edition of My Monopoly , using Gosforth locations. Other pubs on Gosforth High Street are the Gosforth Hotel (built 1878), the Queen Victoria (known for
285-600: A landmark tower building, built in the 1960s, which in the 2000s was replaced with a 10-storey office building; Partnership House , as it is now known since being sold by the bank, now houses companies including law firm Clifford Chance and video games developer Ubisoft Reflections . Other resident companies of Regent Centre include the National Health Service (NHS). Greggs , the largest national retail bakery, originally started with John Gregg's single shop on Gosforth High Street in 1951; initially Greggs
342-399: A large bus station and multi-storey car park. In 1902, Gosforth was linked by tramway to Wallsend , then Newcastle a year later; this tramway has long since been removed as other travel links evolved. The Gosforth Park Light Railway extended the tramlines from the High Street to the gates of Gosforth Park; this service ceased in 1930. In the late 1850s, prior to horse trams, a resident by
399-584: A local television presenter; music pupils from the then Gosforth High School also performed at the opening. In 2014 the Gosforth Customer Service Centre closed and the space is now occupied by part of Newcastle City Learning. The new building will also incorporate 'public art' to give the centre an identity and a connection with the local area. The library is also used as a polling station . The current civic hall in Gosforth
456-755: A long connection with local rugby football, currently being home to Newcastle's oldest rugby club, Northern Football Club (founded 1875). Northern's home is McCracken Park located on the Great North Road. Also nearby is namesake of the current incarnation of the Gosforth Rugby Club (originally formed in 1877). The city's rugby club, the Newcastle Falcons , was also originally based in Gosforth, also originally being called Gosforth Rugby Club, and later Newcastle Gosforth. Gosforth Central Park has two bowling greens (one now used as
513-700: A number of archaeological finds in Gosforth, with the earliest piece being a prehistoric flint flake that was found in 1959. In 1863 a 2nd-century Greek Colonial coin was found in a garden in Bulman Village. A Roman altar was found in North Gosforth. Gosforth has a large business complex called the Regent Centre . Gosforth's main high school is Gosforth Academy , and some of the private schools in Gosforth are Westfield School (for girls) and Newcastle School for Boys . St Nicholas Hospital
570-556: A public 'quiet area') with a women's and a men's club, two tennis courts, a basketball court and a fenced playground area. Gosforth has a number of golf courses including the City of Newcastle Golf Club, High Gosforth Golf Course and Gosforth Golf Course, which is a 90-acre (360,000 m ) golf course that opened in 1906. Gosforth has been home to the South Northumberland Cricket Club since 1892, which
627-519: A short time as Northern Lights), the Blacksmith's Arms, Barca (formally Earl Grey) and the Job Bulman, a branch of Wetherspoons located in the former 1920s post office building on St Nicholas Avenue, and named after the founder of Bulman Village. The County Hotel, towards the southern end of the centre of Gosforth, is the southernmost High Street pub. Former public houses in Gosforth include
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#1732780030042684-577: A siege on Berwick . According to the 19th-century publication, A Topographical Dictionary of England , the township of Gosforth was held of the crown by the Surtees family from 1100 to 1509, when it passed by marriage to Robert Brandling . In 1777, Gosforth contained seven townships of North Gosforth, South Gosforth, Coxlodge, Kenton, Fawdon, East Brunton and West Brunton. By order of the Local Government Board on 20 September 1872,
741-705: A slightly higher status and the right to appoint a mayor . Urban districts in the outer London area were absorbed into London Boroughs in 1965 as a consequence of the London Government Act 1963 . All remaining urban districts in England and Wales were abolished in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 , and replaced with a uniform system of larger districts – see Districts of England and Districts of Wales – which often covered both urban and rural areas. Many parish councils in England were created for towns previously covered by urban districts and, as
798-463: Is also located in Gosforth, which houses the Jubilee Theatre , a Victorian Theatre built in 1899. Apart from South Gosforth, many residential districts of Gosforth are suffixed "Park". There is Bridge Park, Brunton Park, Gosforth Park (including Newcastle Racecourse ), Grange Park, Greystoke Park, Grove Park, Kingston Park, Melton Park, Newcastle Great Park and Whitebridge Park. East of
855-712: Is home itself to the South North Bulls team. Gosforth formerly had two cinemas, the Royalty Cinema on the High Street and the Globe Cinema on Salters Road. The Royalty Cinema opened on 17 October 1934 and closed on 30 December 1981. A video documentary, Last Reel at the Royalty , viewable online was produced about the cinema's history. The Globe Cinema later became a bingo hall and is now Poon's Gosforth Palace Chinese restaurant. The ground on which
912-637: Is just north of Gosforth in Newcastle ; another office complex called Esh Plaza is also located in Newcastle Great Park. In 2004 Sage moved its headquarters to this location from a site near Haddricks Mill Roundabout, and moved again to Cobalt Park in 2021. Gosforth High Street has been home to local shops for over a hundred years. Shops on the High Street include a branch of Boots , Thorpes (a well established local hardware store), estate agents, hairdressers and banks, among many others. In 1979
969-422: Is on Regent Farm Road and was built in the 1970s as a replacement for the old Central Hall on the High Street. A Second World War plaque is located in the hall. As of 2011 the hall was not regularly used and the council were looking at other potential community uses for the building. In 2014 a competitive process to determine the operator of the hall was held. This was won by Liberdade Community Development Trust, and
1026-695: The Asda supermarket stands was formerly the Gosforth Greyhound Stadium until the late 1980s and the home of Northumberland RFU. The stadium had also previously been a Speedway Track from 1929 to 1930. Many businesses have offices in the Regent Centre complex, near the High Street, as well as other business parks including Gosforth Industrial Estate, located near the Metro train sheds, and Gosforth Business Park, located between Gosforth Park and nearby Longbenton . Gosforth houses Jubilee House,
1083-617: The Light Railways Act 1896 ( 59 & 60 Vict. c. 48). Construction of the line by the North Eastern Railway was authorised by Parliament in February 1901. In March 1905, the 7-mile section from South Gosforth to Ponteland was opened to goods traffic, with passenger services commencing in June 1905. A 1¼-mile extension of the branch line to the garden city of Darras Hall in Northumberland , known as
1140-505: The Local Government Act 1929 saw a net decrease of 159 between 1932 and 1938. In many instances smaller urban districts were merged with their surrounding rural districts, with the result that new districts emerged covering rural as well as urban parishes. At the same time, a number of larger urban districts became municipal boroughs (as already created, in 1835 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 ): these had
1197-518: The Town Moor to the south, High Heaton and Longbenton to the east, and Kenton to the west. There are four electoral wards on Newcastle City Council that include parts of Gosforth: Dene and South Gosforth, Fawdon and West Gosforth, Gosforth , and Parklands . The origin of the area's name is thought to have come from 'Gese Ford', meaning 'the ford over the Ouse', referring to a crossing over
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#17327800300421254-531: The Tyne and Wear Metro network. This saw the construction of four stations at Regent Centre , Wansbeck Road , Fawdon and Bank Foot . In September 1985, a further purpose-built station opened at Kingston Park , between Fawdon and Bank Foot. The line was further extended in November 1991, following the opening of a 3.3-kilometre (2.1 mi) section between Bank Foot and Newcastle Airport , with an intermediate station at Callerton Parkway . The line required
1311-437: The 1894 Act came into force on 31 December 1894 there had been 753 urban districts, of which 692 had previously been local government districts , 30 had been improvement commissioners districts and 31 were places newly given urban powers in 1894. The number of urban districts initially increased after 1894 as more places sought urban powers, but implementation of the recommendations of a series of county reviews as established by
1368-562: The 19th century Gosforth's population was largely deemed by the coal trade. In 1801 there were 1,385 inhabitants, most of whom lived in Kenton, and were employed in the colliery there. In 1831 the population had risen to 3,546, partly due to the opening of the Fawdon and Coxlodge collieries. Between 1831 and 1871 the population only grew by a very small amount to 3,723, due to the pits at Fawdon and Kenton having ceased to function. There have been
1425-630: The Bulman family in an attempt to provide voters for their cause in the 1826 elections. A stone bearing the name 'Bulman Village' survives and was incorporated in the façade of a later building, the Halifax Bank building north of the Brandling Arms public house. The Blacksmith's Arms public house on Gosforth High Street stands on the site of the original blacksmith's forge. At the 2001 census there were 23,620 people living in Gosforth. In
1482-694: The Collingwood in Regent Farm, and the Royal George in Brunton Park which closed in June 2009. The Three Mile Inn is located on the historic Great North Road . Gosforth is served by three Tyne & Wear Metro stations: South Gosforth , Regent Centre , Wansbeck Road . The control centre for the Metro system is located at South Gosforth station, and the main depot and car sheds are nearby. Regent Centre's Transport Interchange also contains
1539-535: The Gosforth Shopping Centre opened on the High Street and connects to Gosforth Central Park ; shops here include a Sainsbury's and a WHSmith . There is also a branch of Virgin Money and a Cancer Research charity shop. The park was created on the site of a former nursery for £10,000 and opened on 6 August 1932. A theatre stood on part of the site of the Gosforth Shopping Centre. The stage faced
1596-400: The Great North Road, Garden Village was developed on 'garden suburb' lines in the 1920s to house workers at the nearby London & North Eastern Railway electric train depot (now the Tyne & Wear Metro depot ). Areas of Gosforth have been used as a filming locations for television shows and films. Gosforth Park was used as a location in 1971's Get Carter and Whitebridge Park which
1653-485: The Little Callerton Railway, was authorised in 1909. Unlike the Gosforth and Ponteland Light Railway, the extension was not constructed as a light railway. Passenger services commenced between Ponteland and Darras Hall in October 1913. In 1922, the branch line was served by six weekday passenger trains, with an additional train running on Saturday. Only three trains ran through to Darras Hall. In
1710-722: The Post Office announced the next set of post offices which would close; the Gosforth Garden Village branch and a nearby branch in Kenton closed. A public meeting was held about the closure of the Garden Village post office on the evening of 28 July. Postal facilities had first been introduced in Gosforth in around 1840. Whilst the fire brigade was stationed in Gosforth there was a siren that used to alert motorists and public alike that they would be leaving
1767-702: The Regent or Engine Pit, where the Regent Centre now stands, and the Jubilee or North Pit further west on Jubilee Road. The modern-day centre of Gosforth, straddling the Great North Road (here called Gosforth High Street), originated in 1826 as a settlement known for several decades as Bulman Village. It originally consisted of a number of properties large enough to qualify occupiers for the franchise (so-called 'forty shilling freeholders' (£2)), built by
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1824-418: The branch line closed to passengers in June 1929. Freight services continued to serve the line until the late 1980s. Since the line's closure, an 8.2-kilometre (5.1 mi) section of the line has since reopened in stages during the 1980s and 1990s, between South Gosforth and Newcastle Airport , as part of the Tyne and Wear Metro network. The Gosforth and Ponteland Light Railway was formed in 1899, under
1881-477: The building is now used as a community theatre. There are a number of buildings with listed status in Gosforth: Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) In England and Wales , an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected urban district council ( UDC ), which shared local government responsibilities with
1938-472: The construction of just 0.2-kilometre (0.12 mi) of new right-of-way . Gosforth Gosforth is an area of Newcastle upon Tyne , England, situated north of the City Centre . It constituted a separate urban district of Northumberland from 1895 until 1974 before officially merging with the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 2001, it had a population of 23,620. Gosforth borders Jesmond and
1995-649: The earlier system of urban and rural sanitary districts (based on poor law unions ) whose functions were taken over by the district councils. The district councils also had wider powers over local matters such as parks, cemeteries and local planning. An urban district usually contained a single parish , while a rural district might contain many. Urban districts were considered to have more problems with public health than rural areas, and so urban district councils had more funding and greater powers than comparable rural districts. Urban districts normally covered smaller towns, usually with populations of fewer than 30,000. When
2052-465: The east of the Asda superstore, or the Regent Farm area. ADSL and ADSL2+ are widely available in Gosforth, and BT Infinity broadband was activated in 2011. Gosforth was a pilot area for the G.fast DSL technology in 2015. As of 2021, CityFibre has been installing Gigabit broadband in the area. In the late 19th century a volunteer fire brigade was started in Gosforth, later in 1894 a fire station
2109-487: The entrance of the shopping centre forward. This was hoped to tie in with the Trinity Square development, on the area of land in front of the church. Trinity Square, now completed, is hoped to be the focal point of the High Street, giving a space for farmers' markets , street theatre and other community activities. There may be a raised paved link across to the shopping centre. This project cost around £400,000. There
2166-606: The funding for the congestion improvements from the Department for Transport . NE3 is the postcode area for Gosforth and BT landlines start with ( 0191 ) 213, 217, 223, 226, 236, 255, 279, 284 and 285. Cable, provided by Virgin Media , does not fully cover Gosforth. For example, it is not available to homes covered by the Wideopen Telephone Exchange in the north of the suburb, or in Garden Village to
2223-480: The headquarters of the savings and mortgages business of Virgin Money . The building was previously known as Northern Rock House, however in 2008 Northern Rock faced huge difficulties in the subprime mortgage crisis and was nationalised . Virgin Money bought Northern Rock from the British Government in 2012 and promised not to make any of the former Northern Rock employees redundant. Northern Rock had
2280-548: The hidden entrance. The alert was the original All Clear Siren from Second World War . An unattended mortuary was situated in what was at one time quite an isolated rural spot to the east of the Three Mile Bridge. This small single-storey red-brick building with green doors was surrounded by trees and a crooked metal fence and was used for people who had died from infectious diseases or had been killed in road traffic accidents. Residents of nearby Burnside Road (built in
2337-535: The junction with St Nicholas Avenue; and Moods – a stationery and gift shop – which stood where the Gosforth Centre is now, opposite Ivy Road. The High Street had a Woolworths store, which closed on 3 January 2009, due to the company being in administration. On 10 December the former Woolworths store reopened as a Co-operative Food store, after plans to change the store into an Italian restaurant were rejected. The branch closed in 2016, being replaced with
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2394-439: The late 1950s) would hear ambulances pass down the lane in the middle of the night and see undertakers arrive to collect bodies during the day. This continued into the 1960s. When a housing estate was built in the 1980s, the site of the mortuary was not built on and is currently a small car parking area. Sanderson Hospital , an orthopaedic hospital, operated in Gosforth between 1897 and 2005. In 2021, new houses are being built on
2451-606: The local River Ouse or Ouseburn . However, as it is first recorded as 'Goseford' in 1166, others think that the name originates from the Old English 'Gosaford', meaning 'a ford where the geese dwell'. Richard Welford notes that the names of North and South Gosforth come from the north and south of the River Ouse. South Gosforth was first mentioned in 1319, when it was noted that the English Army retreated there from
2508-603: The mid- and late-1920s, an unscheduled service operated from Darras Hall for colliery workers at Belsay and Wallridge. The 7½-mile line, which linked with the Ponteland Railway, was known as the Wallridge Mineral Railway. As a result of poor passenger numbers, the branch line closed to passengers on 17 June 1929. The Little Callerton Railway sub-branch line had operated passenger services between Ponteland and Darras Hall for just sixteen years at
2565-467: The modern South Gosforth, Regent Centre and Fawdon stations respectively. In 2009 Newcastle City Council agreed to £9.6 million worth of plans to revamp roads around Gosforth, including the High Street and the Great North Road. With the proposed improvements there would be up to 13 months of roadworks, starting in 2012. The High Street is to have bus lanes, and other traffic is to be confined to one lane in each direction. The city council aims to get 90% of
2622-563: The name of Mark Frater established an omnibus service connecting Gosforth and Newcastle. In 1864, Gosforth was connected to the Blyth and Tyne Railway. In 1905 the Ponteland Railway was opened from Gosforth to Ponteland . Three stations in Gosforth were on this route, South Gosforth (the 1864 station renamed), West Gosforth and Coxlodge. With the opening of the Metro system in the 1980s the locations of these stations were used for
2679-469: The newest expansions of the city is called Newcastle Great Park in the very north of Newcastle. Gosforth has sports facilities such as Gosforth Swimming Pool among others. Famous sportsmen from Gosforth include footballer Alan Shearer and athlete Jonathan Edwards . The swimming pool was given a slight revamp during early 2011. Newcastle Racecourse is based in Gosforth Park. Gosforth has had
2736-613: The parishes of South Gosforth and Coxlodge were constituted into a district, governed by the South Gosforth Local Board. In the 19th century, Gosforth was the location of a number of collieries, including the Gosforth and Coxlodge Collieries. Gosforth Colliery was located in South Gosforth, while Coxlodge Colliery was west of the Great North Road. Coxlodge Colliery comprised three pits; the Bower Pit,
2793-613: The park and a huge door could be opened to entertain an outdoor audience. The theatre was damaged in a fire shortly before the Shopping Centre was built. Many shops have come and gone from Gosforth High Street over the years, including familiar names such as: Robinson's Pet Shop which was near Elmfield Road; Boydell's Toys on the corner of Hawthorn Road; Maynard's sweet shop, the Toddle Inn Cafe and Laidlaw's hardware and decorating store – all of which were situated opposite
2850-462: The site (now demolished) won the 1994 New Building Category in the Lord Mayor's Design Awards. Procter & Gamble left the site in 2001 to move to Cobalt Business Park , near the eastern city boundary with North Tyneside , and the Gosforth land is now used for residential properties. The Sage Group had its headquarters in Newcastle Great Park (in an office complex called "North Park") which
2907-453: The site on Salters Road. Gosforth has a public library which was re-built in 2007. In November 2006, the old Gosforth Library was closed and moved to a nearby temporary location. The single-storey building was subsequently demolished and has been replaced by a new two-storey building. The new Library and Customer Service Centre, costing £2.8 million opened on 17 December 2007. The library was officially opened on 8 February 2008 by John Grundy ,
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#17327800300422964-429: The time of closure. Most stations had closed to goods traffic by the late 1960s, however the line remained open for freight services until 6 March 1989. In later years, the line primarily served goods traffic to and from ICI , at ICI Callerton , and Rowntree's , at Fawdon . In May 1981, an 8.2-kilometre (5.1 mi) section of the former Ponteland Railway was reopened between South Gosforth and Bank Foot, as part of
3021-515: Was built on Gosforth High Street and since 1990 Gosforth has been served by Gosforth Community Fire Station, located on Jubilee Road. Gosforth's first police station opened in 1857, with four policemen, due to the County Constabulary Act of 1856. Its last police station, on Hawthorn Road, closed in the 1990s and Gosforth is now served from Etal Lane Police Station. Gosforth has a number of post offices , however on 1 July 2008
3078-414: Was developed in the 1950s. The principal building in this complex, Hedley House itself (c. 1953) was designed by Sidney Burn, staff architect to Thos. Hedley & Co. , soap manufacturers, in association with consultant architect Anthony Chitty. In 1963/64 an addition to the site included a computer block by Sir Basil Spence (1963/64). The landscape setting was designed by B. Hackett. The 1994 extension to
3135-751: Was known as Greggs of Gosforth. In 1968 Greggs opened their first large-scale bakery on the Gosforth Industrial Estate, but in 2011 moved to a £16.5 million site in Gosforth Business Park on Gosforth Park Way. In 2012 the Greggs on the High Street was given a concept makeover depicting their 'Greggs the Bakery' format. Procter & Gamble plc formerly had their UK head office in Newcastle, at Hedley House, Gosforth, that
3192-412: Was to be a mall refurbishment costing £600,000 in 2010. As of late 2009 units 22 and 23 were currently under discussion for a possible restaurant site. Nick Cott, Councillor for West Gosforth ward, noted that current discussions were about transport issues and environmental improvements. Gosforth Shopping Centre is owned by Drum who purchased it in 2016 for £12.25 million. Its previous owner for more than
3249-455: Was used in an episode of Wire in the Blood . Melton Park has the ruins of a chapel which dates back to early medieval or late Norman times . Brunton Park is a neighbouring estate to the Newcastle Great Park. The oldest parts in the estate have existed since the early 1930s. The rest of the estate was built during the 1940s and 1950s. It contains a number of local convenience shops. One of
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