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Lamesley

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OS grid reference
  
NZ251580

Metropolitan borough
  
Gateshead

Country
  
England

Local time
  
Sunday 2:11 AM

Dialling code
  
0191

Civil parish
  
Lamesley

Region
  
North East

Area
  
22.9 km²

Metropolitan county
  
Tyne and Wear

Lamesley

Population
  
8,662 (Gateshead 2011 census.ward)

Weather
  
9°C, Wind SE at 8 km/h, 99% Humidity

Lamesley is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 3,742. The village is on the southern outskirts of Gateshead, near to Birtley. The parish includes Kibblesworth, Lamesley village, Eighton Banks and Northside, Birtley which is predominantly private housing in neighbourhoods named The Hollys, Long Bank, Northdene and Crathie.

Contents

Map of Lamesley, Gateshead, UK

A hilltop contemporary sculpture in the parish is the Angel of the North by Anthony Gormley on a minor hilltop which is lower than Low Fell in the parish.

Demography

Combined, this area has a population of 3,928 people as at the 2001 census and unlike the small rise in the overall region saw a decrease to 3,742 at the following census. The Gateshead MBC ward of Lamesley had a population of 8,662 at the 2011 Census.

The Ravensworth Arms in Lamesley is said to be where Lewis Carroll wrote 'Alice in Wonderland'.

References

Lamesley Wikipedia