Where is Benton Park View?

Benton Park View is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.0070°, -1.5890°.

Parks · North East England

Benton Park View

Benton Park View in England North East, United Kingdom.

Passage between Cosgrove Court and Freeman Hospital - geograph.org.uk - 7381160 — Oliver Dixon — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Benton Park View is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

Benton Park View, located in Benton, a suburb of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, is a multi-agency site of the UK Government. The complex is one of the largest secure civilian government complexes in Europe. The site is owned by Newcastle Estates Partnership and the principal tenants are His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The site consists of a large group of office blocks within a secure perimeter. The official name of the site is "Benton Park View", but it is known best, especially in Newcastle, as "The Ministry", after its original purpose as the administrative centre for the Ministry of Pensions (later the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance). The site is well served by public transport. The nearest stop on the Tyne and Wear Metro system is Longbenton, which also serves the nearby suburb in North Tyneside (north of the railway line) called 'Longbenton', and a station at Four Lane Ends is located a short distance away. Both stations are served by trains on the Yellow Line service of the Metro and a number of special bus services to bring workers from outlying areas.

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Background

History

The site was created with the founding of the UK welfare system in the late 1940s and consisted of a series of 'H Blocks, So named due to their similarity to the letter 'H' when viewed from above. The old site consisted of a number of brick-built, single-storey H-shaped buildings that dated from the 1940s and a number of other buildings that dated from the 1960s, several of which were multi-storey blocks built in the minimalist concrete-and-glass style of the period. The older single-storey blocks were numbered (1–16) and the newer blocks designated by letter (A-D). The ‘H’ blocks are believed to have been built as a hospital accommodation for wounded servicemen from World War II, although…

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