Biddick Hall
Biddick Hall is an area in the town of South Shields, in Tyne and Wear, England. Biddick Hall is known for its infant and junior school as well as its conveniences and shops. Biddick Hall is a medium-size council estate in the borough of South Tyneside and has many links to South Shields Town Centre and surrounding areas via its bus services run by Stagecoach and Go North East. Biddick Hall is in walking distance to its nearest 'Comprehensive School', Boldon School.
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South Tyneside
South Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It is bordered by all four other boroughs in Tyne and Wear: Gateshead to the west, Sunderland in the south, North Tyneside to the north and Newcastle upon Tyne to the north-west; the border county of Northumberland lies further north. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the County Borough of South Shields with the municipal borough of Jarrow and the urban districts of Boldon and Hebburn from County Durham.
Part of the Tyneside conurbation, the sixth largest in the United Kingdom, South Tyneside has a geographical area of 24.88 mi2 (64.4 km2) and an estimated population of 153,700 (mid-year 2010), measured at the 2011 Census as 148,127. It is bordered to the east by the North Sea and to the north by the River Tyne. A green belt of 9.13 mi2 (23.6 km2) is at its southern boundary.
The main administrative centre and largest town is South Shields. Other riverside towns are Jarrow and Hebburn, while the villages of Cleadon, Whitburn and The Boldons border the South Tyneside green belt, with Wearside to the south at Sunderland.
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Brockley Whins Metro station
Brockley Whins is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the suburbs of Boldon Colliery and Brockley Whins, in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 31 March 2002, following the opening of the Green line extension from Pelaw to South Hylton.
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West Harton
West Harton is an area of the town of South Shields, in Tyne and Wear, England. It is primarily a residential area, with several schools and leisure facilities, including St Wilfrid's College and Brinkburn Recreation Ground. South Tyneside District Hospital is also situated in the area.
It is served by Tyne Dock Metro station on the Tyne and Wear Metro.
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Brockley Whins
Brockley Whins is an area in South Tyneside, part of South Shields, with a postcode of NE32 [1]
It is served by Brockley Whins Metro station.
The name originates from a farm which was located about 400 metres East, in what is now the Biddick Hall Estate. ("Brockley" means "of badgers" and "Whins" is synonymous with "bushes"). When the Brandling Junction Railway (now the Newcastle-Sunderland metro line) was built (1839) it crossed the Stanhope and Tyne railway nearby. Sidings were put in place to connect the two railways together, and a station was placed there, named after the farm because it was the nearest habitation at that time. The modern estate was apparently named after the station.
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