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The town has expanded greatly in terms of housing since the end of World War II, and since the 1960s. Wallsend Town Centre—including the main shopping area known as the "Wallsend Forum"—is in fact to the west of the land covered by the town. To the north of this area lies the older estate of High Farm and the new estate of Hadrian Lodge.
Wallsend fort (1964 OS map) Wallsend fort plan (3rd century) Segedunum was a Roman fort at modern-day Wallsend, North Tyneside in North East England. The fort lay at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall near the banks of the River Tyne. It was in use for approximately 300 years from around 122 AD to almost 400.
Wallsend Volunteer Rifle Corps; Willington, Tyne and Wear This page was last edited on 28 May 2020, at 18:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The shingle beach at Pevensey Bay provides an important defence against flooding and storm damage from the sea for a large area of low-lying land beyond. There are two Martello towers, constructed in 1806 as Napoleonic coastal defences. Before development commenced it was known as Wallsend; the 16th century Castle Hotel standing alone on the beach.
The souls of Wallsend were ministered to from an early stage by monks crossing the Tyne from St Paul's, Jarrow, one half of the Benedictine house of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey. From the Reformation until 1856 the parish priest was a perpetual curate , whereafter he became a titular rector by Orders in Council.
Wallsend St Peter and St Luke The Church of St Luke is a Church of England Grade II* listed [ 1 ] church located in the centre of Wallsend , North Tyneside , next to Station Road. The nave of St Luke's, Wallsend, looking east The Lady Chapel at the east end of the south aisle
For some languages, like Sanskrit and Greek, the historical dictionary (in the sense of a word-list explaining the meanings of words that were obsolete at the time of their compilation) was the first form of dictionary developed; though not being scholarly historical dictionaries in the modern sense, they did give a sense of semantic change over time.
Hadrian's Wall was one of the frontiers of the Roman Empire. [5] Roman remains can be found widely across North East England. A special exhibition based around the Roman Fort of Segedunum at Wallsend [6] and the other forts along Hadrian's Wall is complemented by the numerous artefacts that are displayed in the Great North Museum Hancock [7] in Newcastle.