Sites of wildlife interest

SOUTH SHIELDS FERRY 11 to Trow Point

TROW POINT

4 River Don Saltmarsh

CHICHESTER

PEDESTRIAN/CYCLE TYNE TUNNEL TUNNEL 12 Trow Point to Lizard Point

1 Riverside MARSDEN

TYNE DOCK HEBBURN 7 Temple Park 3 Primrose Nature Reserve LIZARD BEDE POINT

10 Marsden Old Quarry

2 Monkton Fell

Great North 6 Newton Garths Forest BROCKLEY Key to all site maps WHINS on following pages BOLDON 9 Hills Public paths/sculpture COLLIERY FELLGATE WHITBURN

Open space CLEADON

Restricted open space 6 Tilesheds Nature Reserve 5 Station Burn and Colliery Wood

Woodland Great North Forest WEST EAST BOLDON BOLDON Urban/industrial areas 13 Lizard Point to Whitburn 8 Boldon Flats Agricultural areas

Great Beach North Forest

Rocky shoreline 2 Monkton Fell

ACCESS Monkton Fell forms a There is a network of mostly level, well surfaced, paths across the area, 500m ‘gateway’ from South including four ‘health walks’ as described in Walking Works Wonders. Tyneside into the Great North

The Bowes Railway Path is a high quality 12 mile off-road route C A MONKTON Forest. It is an area of rapid through the site, which leads from Jarrow to deep into the M MONKTON P STADIUM change, in which the local B Great North Forest at Tanfield Railway Museum. E VILLAGE L L community is making P A TRANSPORT R impressive strides to help K SPORTS There is a regular bus service along Mill Lane/Finchale Road R convert an industrial legacy O GROUND A (nos 526,527 and 528) and Campbell Park Rd (nos 521 and 532). D into an attractive, wildlife-rich resource as part of the Forest Hexham Avenue initiative.

Community M O Environmental N For 50 years, up until the

K SKYLARK

T Action Office O 1980s, Monkton Cokeworks

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B dominated the area. The late 1990s saw a large reclamation scheme and U NE R the planting of over 45,000 native trees. Now, with community ON LA N ONKT M M A involvement, Monkton Fell is being restored and enhanced, as part of a PLAYING R IN FIELD PLAYING E wider Great North Forest initiative which includes the neighbouring D FIELD R Wardley area of . I V E The open nature of the area makes it ideal for seeing birds like the

L skylark, which delivers its evocative summer song from high in the sky. U K E Look out also for lapwing, kestrel, and grey partridge, the latter often ’ S L seen flying off in small groups and calling loudly. A MONKTON N BUSINESS E There is an interesting new pond with dipping platforms to visit, east of PARK Monkton Fell Lukes Lane - and a larger, more mature pond, Pelaw Pond, behind the PELAW Cock Crow Inn. POND Monkton Fell has three

M striking new steel sculptures IL L by artist William Pymm - H L T A A N P E the Beehive and Swarm at the Y A W entrance to the Business Park IL RED BARNS A R QUARRY E on Mill Lane and S N E LA W Green Heart, where the O AM B LE Bowes Railway Path crosses Monkton Lane. Borough boundary