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Borough of North Tyneside
Geography
Status:	Metropolitan borough
Region:	North East England
Ceremonial County:	Tyne and Wear
Traditional County:	Northumberland
Area: - Total	Ranked 260th 82.39 km²
Admin. HQ:	Wallsend
ONS code:	00CK
Demographics
Population: - Total () - Density	Ranked / km²
Ethnicity:	98.1% White
Politics
North Tyneside Council http://www.northtyneside.gov.uk
Leadership:	Mayor & Cabinet
Mayor:	John Harrison (Labour)
MPs:	Nick Brown, Stephen Byers, Alan Campbell

North Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in the North East of England, part of the Tyne and Wear urban area centred on Newcastle and formerly part of Northumberland. The local council is North Tyneside Council.

Location

North Tyneside is bounded by Newcastle to the East, the river Tyne to the South and Northumberland to the North. The main towns are Wallsend, North Shields and Whitley Bay, which form a continuously built-up area contiguous with Newcastle. Other places in North Tyneside include:

• Backworth
• Benton
• Cullercoats
• Killingworth
• New York
• Seaton Burn
• Shiremoor

Administration

see North Tyneside Council

Unlike most English districts, its council is led by a directly-elected mayor, currently John Harrison.

History

The borough was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the county borough of Tynemouth, with the borough of Wallsend, part of the borough of Whitley Bay, the urban district of Longbenton and part of the urban district of Seaton Valley.

Economy

North Tyneside lies in the coalfield that covers the South-East of the historic county of Northumberland. It has traditionally been a centre of heavy industry along with the rest of Tyneside, with for example the Swan Hunter shipyard in Wallsend, and export of coal. Today most of the heavy industry has gone, leaving high unemployment in some areas (over the borough, 3.2% compared to 2.7% for the UK). The borough is the 69th most deprived in England, out of 354. However some parts function as relatively wealthy dormitory suburbs of Newcastle. Recent growth has come in the A19 corridor with new industrial estates and retail parks.

Transport

Two key roads serve North Tyneside:

• The A19 which leaves the A1 north of Newcastle and runs through the borough and then through the Tyne Tunnel to South Tyneside, Teesside and towards the South.
• The Coast Road (A1058) runs from Newcastle to the coast. For most of its length it is grade-separated.

North Tyneside is served by 17 stations on the Tyne & Wear Metro on a loop from Newcastle through Wallsend, North Shields, Whitley Bay, Benton and back to Newcastle. There are no National Rail stations in the borough.

The Shields Ferry links North Shields to South Shields, in South Tyneside.

There is an international ferry terminal at Royal Quays in North Shields, with services to Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands.

Places of Interest

• Segedunum Roman fort is in Wallsend (at the end of Hadrian's wall).
• The Stephenson Railway Museum in New York, named after George Stephenson and Robert Stephenson who hailed from Tyneside and lived in West Moor in North Tyneside 1802-1824.
• Tynemouth Castle and Priory

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