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Discover one of Newcastle’s Contact details: lesser known corners on this varied and fascinating 41/2 mile / Traveline 7 km walk in the Lower Tel: 0870 608 2608 . From the www.traveline.org.uk colourful boats at the mouth of the Ouseburn to the quiet Hadrian's Wall Information Line tranquillity of Jesmond Vale, this Tel: 01434 322002 is a walk with something for www.hadrians-wall.org everyone. Newcastle Tourist The route can be joined at any Information Centre point and can be followed in Tel: 0191 2778000 either direction. To give feedback on these & Frequent bus services run to other strategic routes in and Bridge and Benton Bank, around Newcastle, and the walk can also be please contact: reached from the Metro stations at Manors and Byker. John Robertson, Designated parking areas are Planning & Transportation indicated on the map. Tel: 0191 232 8520

Newcastle’s Historic Valley Bridges over Bridges Victoria Tunnel A Lost Village In terms of its history, the The is renowned for In 1839 work started on a tunnel The old village of Jesmond Vale Ouseburn Valley is one of the its bridges, but the Ouseburn that would carry coal from the used to sit amongst fields in the gems of northern . Valley has some magnificent colliery in the bottom of the Ouseburn Valley, a Along the steep valley sides you examples of its own. The Lower North West of Newcastle, down tranquil haven away from the will find evidence of the Valley is dominated by three to the river Tyne. The tunnel was bustle of the city. industries for which Newcastle huge structures. built to avoid coal being The village had three pubs, a was famous even before the The Ouseburn Viaduct carries transported through the busy days of railways and city streets. farm and a mill beside the river. the railway and was originally The remains of the mill 5 can shipbuilding. Lead products, built partly of timber. It was later Victoria Tunnel was opened in still be seen, and the leat which ironware, glass, pottery, lime and widened and rebuilt in cast-iron. soaps were all manufactured 1842. It was 2 miles long and the fed it can be traced back to the along the Ouseburn. The Byker Road Bridge is total descent of the tunnel from mill dam at Greenwater Pool 6 . the colliery to the Tyne was The Lower Ouseburn is tidal up supported on impressive brick- 68m/222ft. Originally a corn mill, it was later to Crawford’s Bridge, and so arched piers. It was originally used to carry the tram-lines from adapted to grind flint for use as small boats could transfer their The tunnel was an efficient way glaze in the pottery industry. Flint cargoes directly to and from the the city out to Byker and beyond and now carries cars. of transporting coal. Wagons was brought into the Tyne as warehouses which lined the travelled down to the Tyne under ballast on cargo ships and was river. Most of these industries The Metro Bridge, 4 opened 20 the force of gravity and a steam then carted up to the mills on the used the river as a drain to carry years ago, has a box concrete engine at the colliery pulled the Ouseburn, hence Ballast Hills 7 . away their waste products. construction which is immensely empty trucks back up to Spital Because of this pollution, 200 strong but relatively light. Tongues. The bulk of the old village was years ago the Lower Ouseburn demolished in the 1960’s when Valley would not have been a Crawford’s Bridge 4 sits The tunnel was closed in 1860. the Vale was earmarked for healthy place to live and work. beneath these huge structures. redevelopment. Of the three It was built in the18th century During the Second World War However, many people did live in pubs only the Bluebell Inn and is now one of the oldest the tunnel was reopened as an the Lower Ouseburn. In the 19th survived. bridges in Newcastle. air-raid shelter. century terraced streets clung to the valley sides and houses At the mouth of the Ouseburn is clustered along the river itself. Glasshouse Bridge. An earlier Many of these survived until the packhouse bridge was 1960s when much of the area demolished when the Quayside was cleared for redevelopment. Railway was extended in 1908.

Front cover: Lower Ouseburn – Ad Infinitum Designed by Ad Infinitum, Rothbury. Published by Newcastle City Council © 2002 The Lower Ouseburn Valley & Jesmond Vale 41/2 miles / 7km Suggested starting point: Quayside/Glasshouse Bridge or Scale of map

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Picture: Newcastle City Libraries 1 Picture: Newcastle City Council GLASSHOUSE K E BRIDGE R R O A Glasshouse Bridges old and new – the former D Main route OUSEBURN packhouse bridge in the 19th century, and the River Tyne WATER SPORTS Alternative route river mouth as it is today. (welly walk) Alternative route Gradients 3 The Sailor’s Bethel was a Danish Hadrian’s Way Glasshouse Glasshouse City Stadium Armstrong Heaton City Stadium Bridge Coulson’s Bridge Park Bridge Seaman’s Church & was renovated Slope Statue Jesmond Vale Lower in 1992 to be used as offices. Steps 2 3 6 Ouseburn 5 7 Parking 1 4 Information Board Kilometres 1 234567 Miles 1 2 3 4 A Public Art