Stella is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.9660°, -1.7220°.

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Stella

Stella in England North East, United Kingdom.

Cowen firebrick and iron slag, Blaydon Burn - geograph.org.uk - 2819376 — Andrew Curtis — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Stella 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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Stella is a community in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. It lies on the south bank of the Tyne, about 5 miles (8 km) west of central Newcastle upon Tyne, between Blaydon (to the south-east) and Ryton (to the west). The area includes the Stella Park housing estate, built on the grounds of a mansion of the same name.

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History

In the 12th century the Bishop of Durham, William of St. Barbara, granted Stellinglei to the nuns of Newcastle, and it remained the property of the nunnery until the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII. In the 1840s there was a coal pit, and there were makers of coal wagons, railway rolling stock and fire bricks. The Stella Coal Company owned several more mines in the neighbouring Ryton and Blaydon areas. Mining continued into the 20th century; the Stella Coal Company Ltd entered voluntary liquidation in 1954 and the final seams in the area were abandoned in 1963. There is an 18th-century watermill at Path Head, on the Stella bank of the Blaydon Burn, which was restored in the…

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