On this Day in 2011

Winner - South Shore Street - Gateshead

Google announced the winners of a voting competition to pick the best streets in Britain on the 6th of June, 2011. South Shore Street in Gateshead won the category for the 'most hippest street'. The street on the Gateshead Quays has the Baltic Centre for the Arts, the SAGE music centre and overlooks the Gateshaed Millennium Bridge. Call Lane in Leeds came second in the category and Whitecross Street in Islington was third.

Source: Bath J, Stevenson RF, 2013 

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Parish in Focus: Bewick, Northumberland

The Civil Parish is the lowest tier of local government and many of the parishes in Northern England have boundaries and interesting histories relating to the ancient townships of long ago. Typically they have an enduring sense of place and community.

Bewick is a civil parish in Northumberland, located about 10 miles north-west of Alnwick. It is sparsely populated, with the population mostly concentrated in the east side of the parish, in the hamlets of Old Bewick and New Bewick. The west of the parish includes the rugged terrain of Bewick Moor and hill ranges. It has several prehistoric sites, including Bronze Age cairns and Iron Age hillforts (see: historic sites). The River Breamish flows through the parish, and south of Bewick Bridge, it becomes known as the River Till.

About the Parish	1855 Directory
Historic Buildings and Monuments	Bewick Hill Camp (hillfort)

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