Where is Benwell & Scotswood?

Benwell & Scotswood is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.9740°, -1.6690°.

Parks · North East England

Benwell & Scotswood

Benwell & Scotswood in England North East, United Kingdom.

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Benwell & Scotswood 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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Benwell and Scotswood is an electoral ward of Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England. The ward encompasses the portion of Benwell that falls into NE15 while the other portion that falls into NE4 is in the Elswick ward. This ward also encompasses Scotswood housing areas, Denton Burn housing areas, as well as the Newcastle Business Park, which is located on the banks of the River Tyne and houses offices of companies such as British Airways and the Automobile Association. The population of the ward is 13,759, which is 5.3% of the total population of Newcastle upon Tyne. Car ownership in the area is 45.1%, lower than the city average of 54.7%. The 2011 Census gave a population of 12,694.

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History

Scotswood grew during the industrial revolution and provided labour for the huge Vickers Armstrong military engineering group formerly Armstrong Whitworth. Scotswood Road, which Vickers Armstrong used to dominate, is a main route along the Tyne and is mentioned in the song "Blaydon Races". The Scotswood Bridge, which was known as the Chain Bridge, was the first bridge to be built over the Tyne in the industrial era. It opened in 1831 and was in use until 1967 when it had been superseded by a more modern structure, and was hence demolished. Benwell and Scotswood were both sites of a number of coalmines. On 30 March 1925 the Montague Main Colliery Disaster occurred, caused by an inrush of…

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