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New York
New York in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
New York 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
New York is a suburban village in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, North East England. Approximately 4 miles from Whitley Bay, and 5 miles from the town of Tynemouth, it locally governed as part of the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside. It was named after New York, following the British capture of the city in 1777.
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Background
History
There had been a settlement in existence on the location of New York since Anglo-Saxon England where it occupied a crossroads between Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey and docks for Lindisfarne Monastery. It did not have an official name until during the American War of Independence when it was named "New York" after New York City following the British capture of the city. It was also due to the village being formally founded then and being located near a now-vanished village that similarly shared a name from the Thirteen Colonies, "Philadelphia". New York had its own blacksmiths' forge from the 1760s until 2016, when the landowner sold the land that it was leased on for redevelopment. New York…
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- Coordinates
- 55.0242, -1.4878
Sources
- wikidata: Q11790885 (CC0)
- wikipedia: New York, Tyne and Wear (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is New York?
- New York is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.0242°, -1.4878°.