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Changes to local government in 1974 saw the parish and urban district abolished and replaced by an unparished area, at first within Tyne and Wear, then from 1986 within the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. Whickham spans three electoral wards: Whickham North, Dunston Hill and Whickham East, and Whickham South and Sunniside (which extends ...
Boundaries of Gateshead Central and Whickham — constituency of UK Parliament — since 2024: Source No source specified. Please edit this file description and provide a source. Date 5 April 2024 Author Rcsprinter123. Permission (Reusing this file) See below.
Whickham South and Sunniside is a local council ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. This ward covers an area of around 5.6 square miles (14.5 km 2), [5] and has a population of 8,313. [6] As of September 2020, the ward is served by three councillors: John McClury, Jonathan Charles Wallace and Marilynn Ord. [7]
Gateshead has a variety of landscapes, urban and industrial areas include the town itself, Whickham and Blaydon in the west, with more semi-rural and rural locations in the west including Ryton and Rowlands Gill. Overall though, it is a fairly green area with over half of the borough being green belt or countryside. [33]
The NE postcode area, also known as the Newcastle upon Tyne postcode area, [2] [3] [4] is a group of 61 postcode districts in north-east England covering 34 post towns.These cover most of Tyne and Wear (including Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Shields, South Shields, Wallsend, Whitley Bay, Hebburn, Jarrow, Washington, Blaydon-on-Tyne, East Boldon, Boldon Colliery, Rowlands Gill and ...
The 1857 map was revised about 1894/1895 and republished a few years later. The area is still showing as entirely rural and there have been no further developments beyond the farms at Lobley Hill, Green's Farm and Norwood although there is an area near the waggonway cottage shown as a coal depot. This is how the area remained for another 30 years.
Map showing the location of the Gateshead and Whickham constituency in Tyne and Wear, under the boundaries created by the 2023 Boundary Review which took effect at the 2024 UK general election Items portrayed in this file
Much of the area south of the A1 is known as Dunston Hill. For electoral purposes, the northern section is grouped along with the Teams area to form Dunston and Teams ward, while the southern section is combined with parts of Whickham, forming Dunston Hill and Whickham East. To the west of Dunston is the site of Dunston Power Station, now ...