Backworth
Backworth | ||
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Metropolitan county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE | |
Postcode district | NE27 | |
Dialling code | 0191 | |
Police | Northumbria | |
Fire | Tyne and Wear | |
Ambulance | North East | |
UK Parliament | ||
Backworth is a village in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England, about 3+1⁄2 miles (6 km) west of Whitley Bay on the north east coast. It lies 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Newcastle upon Tyne. Other nearby towns include North Shields to the southeast, Wallsend to the south, and Cramlington to the northwest.
Backworth is often recognised to include Backworth Village, Castle Park Estate and moorside estate.
The hamlets of West Holywell and East Holywell lie to the northeast of Backworth. Shiremoor lies to the South-East and Earsdon to the East.
The Village
The original part of Backworth is commonly referred to as the village. It is home to several cottages dating back to the 19th century. There is also a church, Village Hall, a post office, Chinese take-away, a convenience store, hair dressers and barber shop, a pharmacy and grooming parlour.
History
Backworth was formerly a township in the parish of Earsdon,[2] in 1866 Backworth became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished to form Seaton Valley.[3] In 1931 the parish had a population of 3154.[4]
Backworth Manor
In an assessment-roll of 1292 Backworth is included as one of the ten manors belonging to
West Backworth Village
It seems that there were certainly two Backworths in 1189 when
West Backworth is now a deserted medieval village. Aerial photographs show a row of crofts along each side of an east-west street, but this is not clear on the ground where there is prominent but disturbed ridge and furrow, and little trace of a two-row village plan. The site today is an open field to the south-east of West Farm, and can be found immediately to the south of Backworth Lane, and to the west of Killingworth Lane. The east-west main street is visible as a holloway heading towards East Backworth.[6][7][8]
Backworth Roman Hoard
A hoard of gold and silver objects was found in 1812, supposedly near Backworth and, according to Haverfield, was sold to a Newcastle silversmith. He resold "all, or nearly all" to Mr. J. Brumell, a Newcastle collector, from whom most of the objects passed in 1850 to the
19th century onwards
Backworth was a centre of coal mining through the 19th century and much of the 20th century. Brickmaking took place just north of the village on the site of the former "C Pit" from the late 19th to mid-20th century. As late as 1950, 2,905 people were employed in the collieries in and immediately around Backworth.
In the early 1970s, the railway system serving Backworth Colliery was one of the few places where steam locomotives could still be seen at work, and a number of its locomotives have been preserved at various heritage railways. Footage of the locomotives (with the colliery itself in the background) taken around this time can be seen on YouTube. A lean-to on the side of the colliery's engine shed also provided a place for the fledgling preservation movement to store locomotives rescued from elsewhere.
In 1980, Backworth's last pit, Eccles Colliery, (the deepest in the Northumberland Coalfield at 1,440 ft) closed after 165 years of mining in the area. The concrete caps covering the backfilled shafts of the "A" pit, Maude and Eccles shafts can still be seen on the site of the colliery. Only the colliery's former workshops survived the demolition of the surface buildings. These back onto Station Road opposite the golf club, and are home to retail and light industrial units.
When the Metro rapid transit system replaced the British Rail passenger line through Backworth in 1980,
New developments
In recent years Backworth has been subjected to substantial residential development alongside the A19 corridor. The new Northumberland Park Metro Station is centre of a new residential area between Backworth and Shiremoor and West Allotment. A new Sainsbury's store was opened on 15 February.
Music
Backworth is home to two traditional British brass bands – the
Sport
Backworth is home to Backworth Cricket Club, which plays in Northumberland and Tyneside senior league.
Backworth is also home to Backworth Golf Course, the only 9-hole course in the area. Before people played golf there it was the Miners' Welfare Hall.
Notable people
- Jack Ord (1907 –1991), cricketer
References
- ^ Backworth is made up of 5 output areas http://www.ukcensusdata.com/valley-e05001131#sthash.nT7fcIOM.dpbs
- A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ "Relationships and changes Backworth CP/Tn through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ "Population statistics Backworth CP/Tn through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- H. H. E. Craster, 1907, Northumberland County History, VIII, 221
- ^ << HER 790 >>William Sidney Gibson, 1846, The History of the Monastery at Tynemouth, I, 61, 127, 153; II (1847), cxii–cxiv H. H. E. Craster, ed. 1909, Northumberland County History, IX, 25–43 C. M. Fraser, ed.
- ^ Lay Subsidy Roll of 1296, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, 99–100 S. Wrathmell, 1975
- ^ Deserted village of South Northumberland, University of Cardiff Unpublished PhD thesis, II, 295 Aerial Photograph, RAF 1956, 13 March, F22 540/RAF/1792, 0035–0036
- ^ << HER 744 >> J.C. Bruce, 1875, Lapidarium Septentrionale, pp. 272–3, no. 535-6
- ^ R.A. Smith, 1922, A Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain, pp. 54, 55, 62, 63, 68
- ^ S.S. Frere, & R.S.O. Tomlin, ed. Instrumentum Domesticum Fasc., Museum of Antiquities Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 2, 2414.36 pp. 40–1; Fasc. 3, 2422.9 p. 17
- ^ F. Haverfield in H.H.E. Craster, ed. 1909, Note on the Backworth Find, Northumberland County History, IX, 26–32 Archaeologia Aeliana, Bell,1, I, 167]
- ^ Backworth Miners' Welfare
External links
Media related to Backworth at Wikimedia Commons