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Sheriff Hill
Sheriff Hill is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, located about 1½ miles south-east from the centre of Gateshead. Sheriff Hill was the site of a battle between William the Conqueror and Malcolm III of Scotland in 1068. The placename originates from medieval times, when the Sheriff, Mayor and Corporation of Newcastle used to meet the Judges of Assize here, to conduct them to Newcastle. Historically, Sheriff Hill was in the old parish of Gateshead Fell and part of County Durham, prior to the formation of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, when Tyne and Wear was established in 1974. The Sheriff Hill Conservation Area was designated in 1999, based in the area around the crossroads were Sheriff’s Highway, Windy Nook Road and Church Road meet, near St John's Church.
Whelan (1856): "Sheriff Hill is about two miles south of Gateshead, and derives its name from the custom which formerly prevailed of the sheriff of Newcastle coming to this place to meet the justices itinerant. Here is the parish church, and places of worship belonging to the Wesleyan Methodists, and the Wesleyan New Connexion. Sheriff Hill Lunatic Asylum is pleasantly situated on an eminence, about two and a half miles south of Gateshead, from which a fine prospect of Ravensworth and its vicinity may be obtained. Samuel Kent, proprietor; Benjamin Barkers, MD physician."
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001164:The Three Tuns Sheriff Hill unknown date unknown
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001151:Old mill, Sheriff Hill, Gateshead, 1900
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Sheriff Hill Methodist Church, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE9 5SD
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IPA17: Conservation Area Character Statements, Strategies and Policy Guidelines
- "This Interim Policy Advice contains conservation area character statements for Gateshead’s 22 Conservation areas along with adopted strategies and development policy guidelines for fourteen of these areas. The Advice was …
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Church of St John, Gateshead Fell
- Overview About St John's Church Map Street View St John's Church, Gateshead Fell, is in Church Road, Sheriff Hill, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. It is an active Anglican …
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FIELD HOUSE, WINDY NOOK ROAD - Gateshead - List Entry
- "Early-mid C19 villa of rubble stone with quoins. Welsh slate roof, hipped at right, stone-coped at left. Two storeys, three windows, slightly irregular. Raised, dressed stone surrounds to sash windows …
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001164:The Three Tuns Sheriff Hill unknown date unknown
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001151:Old mill, Sheriff Hill, Gateshead, 1900
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Sheriff Hill Methodist Church, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE9 5SD
Pinned by Simon Cotterill
from https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/…
IPA17: Conservation Area Character Statements, Strategies and Policy Guidelines
- "This Interim Policy Advice contains conservation area character statements for Gateshead’s 22 Conservation areas along with adopted strategies and development policy guidelines for fourteen of these areas. The Advice was …
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Simon Cotterill
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Church of St John, Gateshead Fell
- Overview About St John's Church Map Street View St John's Church, Gateshead Fell, is in Church Road, Sheriff Hill, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. It is an active Anglican …
from https://historicengland.org.u…
FIELD HOUSE, WINDY NOOK ROAD - Gateshead - List Entry
- "Early-mid C19 villa of rubble stone with quoins. Welsh slate roof, hipped at right, stone-coped at left. Two storeys, three windows, slightly irregular. Raised, dressed stone surrounds to sash windows …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
