Brandling Village Newcastle Haymarket Medical University Jesmond Vale School Library Newcastle Great North Museum University One square represents Northern Newcastle approximately ExploreStage 4 minutes walk City Centre A B C D E Haymarket Newcastle Find 1 University Haymarket Haymarket Bus Station Haymarket John Dobson Street John Dobson Street J Bus Station O Haymarket H Grainger Town N Northumbria University D O N B O S O R Stepney Ouseburn Alderman Fenwick’s House D3 T N Northern Cumberland H Bank U Print Farm Arms M B Stables E City Laing The Cluny & 36 Lime Street R Northumbria L Library Art Gallery Assembly Rooms B4 St James’ A N D The Star & Shadow & Leazes S The T Ouseburn University Art Works N Bigg / Groat / Cloth Market C4 St James Monument Galleries St Andrew’s Church Grainger Town O Black Swan Court / B4 R Central Arcade Roman milecastle Theatre Royal Lime Street Entrance to Ballast Blackfriars Victoria Tunnel Hills T Grainger Market Battle Field St Anne’s Church Ballast Hills Park & Chinatown Alderman H Fenwick’s St Ann’s Central Exchange / C3 House Ouseburn Barrage St Lawrence U Central Arcade Park Blackfriars M City Grey Street Holy Jesus Sandgate Mariners Hospital Wharf Walker Road Clayton Street B3/B4 B Campus Eldon Square Spillers Quay SAVILLE ROW Assembly Quayside E The Tyne Rooms Statue of Queen Victoria East Theatre Old Church of St. John the Baptist Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas Bus Station Eldon Square R Cross House / A4 Discovery Newcastle JOHN DOBSON Joseph Cowen statue Old General L & StephensonNorth of England Institute of Mining Post Office Shopping and Mechanical Engineers Black Gate A Literary & Vermont Hotel Mushroom Philosophical Side Gallery Wor Jackie Society BALTIC Works Duke of Northumberland B3 Newcastle Central Station Quayside Centre N Laing Castle Moot Hall Keep Bessie Surtees Baltic Square Castle Stairs D 2 Bridge Hotel Art Gallery Duke of Wellington D3 Guildhall Mill Road City Swing S Centre Quayside Bridge for Life Gateshead Quays Library Emerson Chambers C2 Town Wall The Sage T High Level Hillgate Gateshead Bridge Quay Gateshead Heritage Hawks Grainger Market B3/C3 St. James’ Centre Road T Quayside Coach BRUNSWICL PL E S & Leazes Parking East IDG The Star & Shadow Grainger Street B4/C3 Old Eldon Square / BR City War MemorialGateshead W map and guide heritage Free Grey Street C2/C3/D3 NE Nocturne Grey’s Monument C2 St. James’ Emerson Grey’s Town Grainger Workplace Northern Goldsmiths Manors Half Moon Inn C4 Gallery Chambers Monument High Bridge C3/C4 St. Andrew’s Plummer Heritage High Street Tyneside Cinema Lord Collingwood B2 Church Tower Gateshead P Gateshead Interchange Lord Collingwood I Northern Goldsmiths C2 Monument L Town Centre NELSON STREET G Manors R Old Eldon Square / B2 I M CARLIOL SQ City War memorial Central Arcade S MARKET STREET Eldon Square Explore 3 T Old George Yard C4 Shopping R Former Co-op E E Pilgrim Street D2/D3 Centre CARLIOL SQ Grainger T Plummer Tower E2 ET Market TRE WORSWICK STREET T S Theatre Royal Rutherford Fountain C4 RKE Theatre MA Welcome to Grainger Town Theatre Royal C3 Blackfriars Duke of SQ Royal Northumberland & Chinatown NUN STREET Tyneside Cinema D2 Grainger Town, with its fine neoclassical House was one of the finest and largest in architecture, is a diverse and dynamic area the entire North-East! Also in Pilgrim Street is Westgate Road A4/B4 CHARLOTTE HIGH BRIDGEDuke of Wellington and forms, in terms of shopping and nightlife, Britain’s best-preserved newsreel cinema, the Rutherford the heart of the modern city. Its history, stylish Tyneside Cinema, which dates back Blackfriars & Chinatown Fountain Alderman however, stretches back to at least Roman to the 1930s. Fenwick’s times and traces of various historical periods Blackfriars can be discovered throughout the area. Blackett Street, along the line of the former Blackfriars House Town Wall, has several late 19th and early Chinese Arch Half Moon Near Westgate Road a few uplifted remains 20th century buildings, such as the building Holy Jesus of a Roman milecastle can be seen, which of the Northern Goldsmiths. Along this street Heber Tower/ Town Wall Inn Hospital formed part of the frontier fortifications of Old Eldon Square was constructed in the Hadrian’s Wall (UNESCO World Heritage 1820s, which today provides a lively green St. Andrew’s Church 4 BI Site). Westgate Road itself is an ancient road space to socialise and relax in. GG M Grey Street into the city and is lined with several buildings K HIGH BRIDGE Old T of the 18th and 19th centuries. The nearby Grey’s Monument at the head of Grey and Old Newcastle George Grainger Streets is one of Newcastle’s most C Grade II* Listed Assembly Rooms are a LO Yard important landmarks. Both streets were part Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas TH splendid showpiece of Newcastle’s 18thGateshead of Richard Grainger’s 1830s redevelopment / F century cultural life. LE scheme which gave Newcastle’s centre a new Church of St. John the Baptist G S R H Balmbra’s Up to the 19th century the long street between image of classical grandeur, with imposing O M St. Nicholas’ Cathedral and St. Andrew’sMillennium buildings such as the Theatre Royal, BridgeGrainger A A T R Newcastle Castle K Assembly M E Church was the town’s bustling market area. Market and the Central Exchange Buildings. A T Old Newcastle R Now the area is famous for its vibrant nightlife Today, Grey Street with its subtle curve is Rooms K Quayside E and the markets are only remembered in the considered one of the finest streets in Britain. T names of the streets. However, several historic ST In addition to fine architecture from several All Saints’ Church The Tyne Tyne Line of Cross House . JOHN ST buildings, including the 16th century Old George Inn, have survived. historical periods, the area is connected with Church of Y famous people, such as Charles Dickens, King Gateshead Millennium Bridge Theatre Txt Flow R A St. John E In the 17th and 18th centuries Pilgrim Street Charles I, Earl Grey and Emerson Muschamp M N T Trinity House E S was popular among wealthy merchants for Bainbridge. Holy Jesus’ Hospital A D Quayside the Baptist S L OO building their houses. Alderman Fenwick’s O W Trinity House Black Swan Court R G NER IN S OR LL E T C O AR EN Discovery & Stephenson C H N AM C I ON C NT H Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas DE O L Surrounding quarters Find out more Visitor information A Transport Map legend E ST S For a variety of excellent LbooksL on Visitor Information Centres can help you S For local travel information, call Traveline Haymarket NEVI Visitor Information Centre Tyneside’s history, visit plan your visit before you arrive and offer T on 0871 200Black 2233, Gate see www.tynebridgepublishing.co.uk or excellent advice while you are here - as http://traveline.info/ or visit a Nexus Travel Information Centre St. James’ & Leazes see the range at City Library. O well asR selling tickets and souvenirs to Travelshop located within Metro Stations Toilets take homeC with you. at Newcastle Central Station, Haymarket, H Blackfriars & Chinatown Other leaflets A Monument or Gateshead Interchange. Public green spaceQuayside NewcastleNewcastleR Visitor Information Centre Central is Station Explore Heritage - City General located D at Market Street next to Central Quaylink S Bessie Surtees Scan this QR code to find mobile- Old Newcastle Explore Heritage - Old Newcastle Arcade. T R Castle Metro station Grainger Street by L. Grimshaw (1902), courtesy Golden Clock, Northern Goldsmiths’ building. friendly information about the history, Explore Heritage - Blackfriars & E Moot Hall NewcastleE Visitor Information Keep TWAM/The Bridgman Art Library. heritage and public art of Newcastle. DiscoveryT & Stephenson Chinatown T REE 0191 277 8000 Castle Stairs Railway station NEVILLE ST Available from the Visitor Information North ofNewcastle England City Institute WalkingLiterary ofTours & Mining Buses Quayside Centre. Philosophical Bridge Hotel 0191and 277 Mechanical 8000 Engineers Taxis www.newcastlegateshead.comSociety Guildhall To the best of our knowledge the information provided here was accurate at the time of going to print © 2014. ET TRE Swing TH S FOR Bridge Discover Welcome to Grainger Town. Whether you want to stroll along Richard Grainger’s elegant streets with their refined neoclassical architecture, explore the site of a Roman milecastle, have a drink in one of Newcastle’s oldest pubs, or discover Grainger Market, once Europe’s largest indoor market, this guide will help you make the most of your visit. Introduction The Great Walls Markets Pubs and inns Stately homes Shopping splendour Cultural and intellectual life Monuments and memorials Grainger Town shows off some of Newcastle’s For centuries Newcastle was an important strategic In medieval Newcastle the market trade developed In Britain, inns have provided refreshments for Newe House or Anderson Place was built in the The glamorous Royal Arcade was built by Richard William Newton’s Grade II* Listed Assembly Rooms In 1838 Grey’s Monument was erected in honour most elegant streets, lined with fine neoclassical and military town. in Newgate Street and the triangular area known as travellers at least since Roman times. In the Middle 16th century by Robert Anderson on the sites of a Grainger at the bottom of Pilgrim Street in 1831- building in Fenkle Street was built between 1774 of Charles, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845), to buildings and occupied by a range of restaurants, the Bigg, Groat and Cloth Markets. On market days former nunnery and friary and was surrounded by 32 based on a design by John Dobson.