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City trips Newcastle  -  City information Newcastle.

Newcastle upon Tyne, often shortened to Newcastle, is a city in the county of Tyne and Wear in North East England and the main city in North East England

The metropolitan boroughs of North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Gateshead are also part of Newcastle's conurbation.


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Car Hire Newcastle

  

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Holiday Homes / Apartments

   -  leading UK provider of self-catered holidays
Availability search [ refining by specifying price, pet, pub nearby, open fire, swimming pool and more possible ], special offers and brochure request.

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Hostel / Youth Hostels

 Youth Hostels England 

Hotels Newcastle upon Tyne

 Hotels in Newcastle  -  Hotel Guide Newcastle

 Royal Station Hotel ***, Neville Street, NE1 5DH Newcastle Upon Tyne
The best located Hotel situated at Newcastle Central Station right in the heart of Newcastle.
Stag parties and groups at weekend please contact the Hotel after you've made your booking as a security deposit is required.

 Britannia Hotel Newcastle Airport ***, Ponteland, Woolsington, NE13 8DJ Ponteland
The Britannia Hotel Newcastle is within two minutes walking distance of Newcastle International Airport and offers a 24 hour airport transfer. A direct Metro service link into Newcastle city centre is available nearby every ten minutes. This modern hotel is located only three miles from the a1 trunk road, allowing easy access for travelling from both the north and the south of the country. Whether for business or pleasure, the hotel is ideally suited for visiting Newcastle city centre, the Metro centre, the Angel of the North, Gateshead Stadium, the Northumbrian coastline including Bamburgh, Holy Island, and the Farne Islands.

 The Vermont Hotel ****, Castle Garth, NE1 1RQ Newcastle Upon Tyne
The Vermont is Newcastle's only 4-star independent hotel. Located next to the Castle, overlooking the Cathedral and the Tyne and Millennium Bridges.
Seven luxuriously appointed meeting rooms are available for special business occasions and private dining. The Bridge Restaurant is located at the Castle Garth level with spectacular views of the Tyne Bridge, alternatively there is the Redwood Bar, with its fireplace and sofas, open until very late. For those wishing to sample the atmosphere of the famous Quayside, Marthas Bar & Courtyard on the ground floor is the entrance to Newcastles night-life. The Vermont is the ideal base from which to explore Newcastle's excellent shops as well as the surrounding areas of Northumberland, Durham and The Borders.

 

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Travel Agents / Tour Operators


Superbreak offer leisure hotel breaks and features 2-5 star hotels, with the majority in the 3-4 star+ rating.

    -  Group Weekends Newcastle
The party capital of the North East! From the buzzing party atmosphere of the city centre & The Quayside to the upmarket suburb of Jesmond, Newcastle is famed for it's nightlife. The daytime activities are among the very best in the UK, with one of the largest outdoor go-kart tracks in the UK to enjoy.

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Travel Guides Newcastle / Related books

Around Newcastle and Northumberland (Philip's Cycle Tours S.) 
Around Newcastle and Northumberland is one of 20 titles in the new Philip's Cycle Tours series. The series is directly derived from the highly successful Ordnance Survey Cycle Tours series, but has been updated and improved, with a new focus on the needs of cyclists and the cycling market in the 21st century. Each book in the series contains 20 routes, both on-road and off-road, taking you along low-traffic or traffic free roads, tracks and paths. The route takes you through some of the most beautiful countryside and prettiest villages in Britain, and past some of the finest and most interesting houses, churches, castles, gardens and monuments in the land.
Spiral-bound 128 pages (March 11, 2002); Publisher: Philip's OS Publications; Language: English; ISBN: 054008204X

Transportation / How do I get to Newcastle

 Newcastle Airport
Flights from Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin, Exeter, Isle of Man, Jersey, London, Plymouth and Southampton.
Downloadable flights timetable [ also for pda ] available.

  Opodo  -  
Flight tickets Newcastle.

 


 
Book cheap flights to Newcastle at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online

  Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights  -  Flights to Newcastle / price comparison possible

 
thetrainline is the fully impartial rail ticketing website owned by the Virgin Group, Virgin Rail Group and National Express Group, providing the cheaper way to buy train tickets online. thetrainline provides fast, easy and secure access to timetables, tickets and fares for all National Rail journeys across the UK.

 GNER  -  Great North East Railway
 South Tynedale Railway  -  Trains operating between Alston and Kirkhaugh
The South Tynedale Railway operates narrow gauge passenger trains along a 2¼ mile line along the scenic South Tyne valley between Alston, in Cumbria and Kirkhaugh, in Northumberland. Train services operate on certain dates between Easter and October and "Santa Special" trains on certain dates in December each year.
 National Rail Enquiries  -  Britain's Official Source for Rail Information

  -  Coach Line to Newcastle
You name it, they go there. National Express carries over 16 million passengers a year to 1000 different places in the UK, and thousands of others to destinations across Europe and Ireland. They run more services to and from UK airports than anyone else, and they even lay on special services to festivals like Glastonbury!

 Tyne and Wear Timetables  -  Bus Timetables
Bus timetables are provided for all local services operating within the Tyne and Wear area and also for some longer distance services operating to/from Tyne and Wear.
 Nexus
Nexus is the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive and administers funds on behalf of the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Authority
 Traveline north east Journey Planner
The traveline north east Journey Planner will allow you to plan any bus, coach, rail, metro and ferry journey anywhere in north east England. It also covers all buses and ferries in North Yorkshire and Cumbria, and travel anywhere in the UK on the national rail and coach networks.

 Maps International  -   
Mapsinternational.co.uk is one of the largest map shops online.
 Multimap.com
Street-level maps, road maps; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information.


Links 

 Travel Insurance - online travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

 Newcastle  -  see 'Visit Newcastle'  -  Gateshead Bourough Council
Newcastle – a great city - once in the forefront of 19th century industrial innovation, now, the forefront of technical innovation, leisure and culture.
Wander down to the transformed waterfront, the Quayside, now lined with stylish hotels, designer bars, restaurants and public art. The Gateshead Millennium Bridge, a work of art in itself, arches across the Tyne to link the City to Gateshead Quays and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

  North Tyneside  -  North Tyneside Council
  South Tyneside  -  Community and Council Site for South Tyneside
  Gateshead  -  Gateshead Council Online
The Great North Forest is one of twelve Community Forests being created across England to regenerate the countryside around our major towns and cities, creating well-wooded landscapes for work, wildlife, recreation and education.

 Coast And Countryside
Starting at the coast, there are beaches inhabited only by oyster catchers. There are fishing villages like Seahouses and Craster, still working and full of character. Or there are seaside towns that grew - Alnmouth, Seaton Carew and Tynemouth grew into Victorian resorts; Saltburn went as far as pier-and-prom status.  And Whitley Bay became an icon of Thirties railway posters! Or what about the countryside? Market towns grew up around the castles - places like Alnwick, Barnard Castle and Staindrop all existed symbiotically with the Big House. There are tiny villages that used to really matter - Escomb's Saxon Church, and Warkworth's giant church show their past status.
 Great North Forest

 News from Newcastle  - icNewcastle
The latest news, sport and business from Newcastle and the North East of England
 TV  -  BBC Tyne

Cuisine

The staple foods of England are meat, fish, potatoes, flour, butter and eggs. Many of the English dishes are based on these foods.

Bacon Roly-Poly, Bangers and Mash, Black Pudding, Bubble & Squeak, Cornish Pasties, Cottage Pie, Fish & Chips, Gingerbread, Hot Cross Buns, Hot Pot, Kedgeree new, Ploughman's Lunch, Roast Beef, Roast Chicken, Roast lamb, Shepherd's Pie, Sponge Cake, Toad-in-the-Hole, Tom Collins, Trifle, Yorkshire Pudding

 Traditional foods in England
English Food by Jane Grigson, Gillian Zeiner (Illustrator), Sophie Grigson
Paperback 400 pages; Penguin Books Ltd; ISBN: 0140273247
Favourite Pudding Recipes: Traditional Ways to a Man's Heart  -  Birkett Foster
Paperback 48 pages; Publisher: J Salmon; ISBN: 1898435685

History of Newcastle / Northumbria

 Newcastle's History  -  Wikipedia
Contents: Roman settlement, Anglo-Saxon development, The Middle Ages, The Civil War and Industrialisation.

 A City of Palaces: Richard Grainger and the Making of Newcastle - Ian Ayris
Paperback 84 pages (August 18, 1997); Publisher: Newcastle Libraries and Information Service; Language: English; ISBN: 1857950631
 On the Waterfront: Historic Tour of Newcastle's Quayside - Ian Ayris, Patricia Sheldon
Paperback 72 pages (February 1994); Publisher: Newcastle Libraries and Information Service; ISBN: 1857950666
Newcastle Town: A History of Newcastle-on-Tyne from the Earliest Records to Its Formation as a City 
R J Charleton
Paperback 444 pages (November 1989); Publisher: Davis Bks.; ISBN: 0946865094

 Hadrian's Wall Country
Nearly 2000 years ago in 122 AD, the Emperor Hadrian embarked on a huge undertaking: to mark the northernmost boundary of Roman Britain with an unusually long fortified wall. Skirmishing tribes were contained behind it for over 350 years and Hadrian's name written indelibly into the history of this evocative and diverse part of the UK.
Today, parts of Hadrian's Wall are still visible; the line of it stretching from Wallsend in the east to Bowness-on -Solway in the west, and the fortifications continuing down the west coast to Ravenglass.

Music, Art & Culture, Entertainment

The North East of England has many of its own traditions, not found elsewhere in England, including the rapper sword dance, Clog dance and the Northumbrian smallpipes [ a type of bagpipe ] as well as its own tartan (often referred to in Scotland as the Shephard's Tartan). Traditional Northumbrian music sounds similar to Scottish.

 Culture Northeast 
Culture Northeast try to ensure that culture and creativity have a strong voice in the region and that they play a full and coherent part in contributing to increasing prosperity and enjoyment of life in the North East.
 Geordie Dialect - humorous conversion English to Geordie, a dialect of Northumbria
Alreet lads an lasses. Welcome to The Original English to Geordie translator, on the web since 1996! But whats a Geordie you may be asking yourself, in essence its them canny fowk from the North East of England sometimes wrongly but understandably mistaken for Scots or Irish to the unaquainted.
Northumberland Rant: Traditional Music from the Edge of England 
To hear a song sample, click on the song titles.
Audio CD; (October 25, 1999); Label: Smithsonian Folkways; ASIN: B00000K53R
 Folk Archive Resource North East  -  home of Northumbrian music online
 Lindisfarne Gospels
The Lindisfarne Gospels are one of the treasures of the Christian Church in Northumbria. They were produced in the 7th. century by a monk called Eadfrith. He became Bishop of Lindisfarne in 698 and died in 721 at a time which is sometimes called the "Golden Age of Northumbria" when learning and artistic skills were at a peak. This was the age in which the Venerable Bede wrote his "Ecclesiastical History" and in which the great Celtic Saints like Aidan and Cuthbert carried out their missionary work for the conversion of the North.
 The Northumbrian Association
In a period of extraordinary intellectual development and creativity in the seventh and eighth centuries, the Angle kingdom of Northumbria (UK) became the cradle of English Christianity, culture and language......

Web Portals / Search Engines / Newcastle Directories

 Newcastle Gateshead  -  Guide to accommodation, attractions, entertainment and culture
 Cycle Gateshead
 On Tyne  -  information service for Tynside
 VRNewcastle  -  Panoramic Tour of Newcastle upon Tyne
This 'street by street' Virtual Reality tour of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Includes virtual tours, interactive maps, visits to retail shops, museums, parks and much more.
"A unique resource for the 21st Century". Java Script enabled browser required & Apple Quicktime 'Plug-in'.
 Looknorth-east.com  -  your window to the north
The site offers many attractions for both visitors and locals - if you are looking for Community Resources, Business, Leisure, Pleasure or Accommodation, a search through the directory will quickly find out Who, What, Why & Where they are in this dedicated directory to the region.
 Noth Northumberland Online
North Northumberland Online covers the beautiful area from Alnwick to Berwick upon Tweed in England's most northern county. Steeped in history, this quiet and peaceful region offers great scenery, spectacular castles and a warm welcome to visitors...

 Yahoo  -  Newcastle Directories 

 MSN UK


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