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Exploring Hadrian’s Way Based upon the 2000 Ordnance Survey map A69 with permission of the Controller of H.M.S.O N Crown Copyright Reserved LA 076244

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This 6 miles / 9 km walk links the Contact details: Tyne Riverside Country Park at Newburn with Heddon-on-the-Wall. Traveline The route includes a riverside path, Tel: 0870 608 2608 fine views across the Tyne Valley www.traveline.org.uk and the landscaped parkland of Close House. Hadrian's Wall Information Line The route can be joined at any Tel: 01434 322002 point and can be followed in either www.hadrians-wall.org direction. Some sections are rough or steep and would not be suitable Newcastle Tourist for wheelchairs. Information Centre Frequent bus services run to Tel: 0191 2778000 Newburn and Heddon. Ample parking is available at Tyne To give feedback on these & Riverside Country Park, and other strategic routes in and some on-road parking is possible around Newcastle, in Heddon. please contact: John Robertson, Newcastle City Council Planning & Transportation Tel: 0191 232 8520

The Edge of the City Of Time and Tide Water for the City Isabella Pit Town and countryside merge The centuries have come and In 1855 the Whittle Dene Water Thockley Colliery’s Isabella Pit on the western fringes of gone, battles have been fought, Company built a new pumping once dominated the site now Newcastle. villages have grown and died, station at Newburn to provide occupied by the Tyne Riverside Stone Age men have hunted clean water for the ever- Country Park. There is no longer a solid mass along the banks of the river. expanding city. They had to of houses and tarmac. Instead, And throughout all that time one close their existing pumping In addition to the pit-head the villages of Newburn and thing has remained constant – station at Elswick because of buildings and engine houses, Throckley and Heddon-on-the- the cycle of the tides. increasing river pollution. the site was served by a Wall are surrounded by waggonway which linked down farmland. And beyond that Although Newburn is 15 miles Originally a steam-driven to the Wylam Waggonway. the rolling Northumberland (24km) from the sea, the tide Cornish pump was installed, landscape stretches to the still flows twice a day past the similar to those used to drain the Between the colliery and horizon. Country Park, all the way to tin mines. Later, this was Blayney Row were a set of Wylam Bridge. replaced by two Barclay beehive coke ovens, built Twenty years ago Tyne “grasshopper” engines, so primarily to supply fuel to the Riverside Country Park was During the Battle of Newburn called because the twin beams steel and brick works in a derelict industrial site with an Ford in 1640, the Scottish army resembled the legs of a Newburn. The remains of these old colliery, a scrap yard and a had to wait until low tide before 4 grasshopper. can still be seen . piggery. Since then 67,000 trees they could cross to the south have been planted and a new bank. 18th century keel- But the working life of the The conversion of coal to coke landscape created. boatmen would have used the Newburn Pumping Station was in beehive ovens was an ebb and flow of the tide to limited. By 1873 a new pumping extremely inefficient and dirty The Country Park at Newburn speed their cargoes of coal station was built upstream at process. The occupants of the brings the countryside to along the river. Wylam and the Newburn station nearby houses must have Newcastle’s doorstep. Tens of was closed. dreaded a northeasterly thousands of people now visit The tidal flow also brings wind which would blow the Tyne Riverside each year - different animals to the river. The former boiler and engine poisonous, choking fumes to walk, to enjoy the scenery, Otters, seals and golden-eye houses have been converted for directly towards their homes. to learn about wildlife and ducks can occasionally be seen an equally refreshing purpose – the ways of the countryside. at Tyne Riverside. the Big Lamp Brewery and Keelman Pub 1 .

Front cover: Station Road, Heddon-on-the-Wall – Newcastle City Council Designed by Ad Infinitum, Rothbury. Published by Newcastle City Council © 2002 Riverside Picture: Graeme Peacock Country Gradients

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