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Newcastle is located about 80 km east of Toronto, and about 18 km east of Oshawa and Bowmanville on Highway 401. It is also the southern terminus of Highway 35 and Highway 115 . It has been named one of the best small towns in Ontario, by Comfort Life , a website for retirement living in Canada.
Newcastle City Library on New Bridge Street West Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne. Newcastle has a strong reputation as a poetry centre. The Morden Tower, run by poet Tom Pickard, is a major venue for poetry readings in the North East, being the place where Basil Bunting gave the first reading of Briggflatts in 1965. [139]
The Chronicle focuses on news and sport in the North East and in particular the Newcastle United. North East sport was covered by The Pink (a Chronicle supplement) from 1895 to 2005. The "Pink" paper was usually issued after the days football had concluded on a Saturday. The last edition was published on 17 December 2005. [9]
The design also involved a council chamber and municipal offices for Newcastle Town Council. [7] The main frontage of the new building, facing the cathedral, had four Corinthian order columns on the ground floor and also on the first floor while the rear elevation, facing onto the Bigg Market, had a tower with a cupola . [ 5 ]
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.
The Ouseburn is a small river in Newcastle upon Tyne, England that flows through the city into the River Tyne. It gives its name to the Ouseburn Valley and the Ouseburn electoral ward for Newcastle City Council elections. The Ouseburn has its source at Callerton in the north of the city near Newcastle Airport.
John Lilburne, 1614–1667 – radical, born in County Durham, grew up in Newcastle; Ken Major, 1928–2009 – architect, author and molinologist, attended King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne; Jean-Paul Marat, 1843–1893 – French revolutionary; Arthur Hardwick Marsh, 1842–1909 – painter; John Martin, 1789–1854 – painter
VIAs Toronto-Ottawa trains runs along the line to Brockville, where it splits off and heads north. The Toronto-Montreal train runs along the whole line. In fact, many say that VIA trains run along the line more than CN freight trains. The most used station on the line is Kingston, due to Montreal, and Toronto stations being on their own ...