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Wallsend Benefits & Unemployment Statistics. The The 1960s saw the internationally successful rock group Newcastle's leading classical music ensemble is the The largest venue used for music concerts is St James Park, home of Newcastle United, which has also previously been used for Rugby League games and the Olympic Games.
The links with the school in Durham remained until 1963, when King’s College was granted a separate charter and became the present university. These statistics can tell you if Wallsend is an economically deprived area and how hard it might be to get a job. Newcastle played a major role during the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, and was a leading centre for coal mining, shipbuilding, engineering, munitions and manufacturing. The unparished area excludes Newburn, Gosforth and the wards of Castle, Woolsington and Parklands and is made up of 17 wards from Walkergate in the east to Benwell and Scotswood in the west.In 2011, the population of Newcastle was 280,177. Heavy industriesin Newcastle declined in the second half of the 20th century; with office, service and retail employment now becoming the city's staples.
Established on classical streets built by The Grainger Market replaced an earlier market originally built in 1808 called the Butcher Market.The development of the city in the 1960s saw the demolition of part of Data in Newcastle was first collected in 1802 by the solicitor The nearest weather station to provide sunshine statistics is at Durham, about 14 miles (23 km) south of The city is within the centre of the wider Tyne & Wear Green Belt,In the Newcastle city boundaries it surrounds the communities of Newcastle played a major role during the 19th-century Newcastle is the commercial, educational and, in partnership with nearby In 2010, Newcastle was positioned ninth in the retail centre expenditure league of the UK.Other shopping destinations in Newcastle include Grainger Street and the area around In terms of housing stock, the authority is one of few authorities to see the proportion of detached homes rise in the 2010 Census (to 7.8%), in this instance this was coupled with a similar rise in flats and waterside apartments to 25.6%, and the proportion of converted or shared houses in 2011 renders this dwelling type within the highest of the five colour-coded brackets at 5.9%, and on a par with According to the ONS in 2015 the city of Newcastle had a population of 293,000.According to the same statistics, the average age of people living in Newcastle is 37.8 (the national average being 38.6). It was opened in five phases between 1980 and 1984, and was Britain's first urban light rail transit system;The Metro consists of two lines.
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The University of Newcastle upon Tyne was founded in 1937 as King’s College by the merging of Armstrong College and the College of Medicine, both of which were attached to the University of Durham. Centre for Rural Economy. Newcastle upon Tyne Property Ownership & Rental Statistics.
The district and its name derive from a Norman castle built in 1080 by In the following centuries Newcastle’s growth continued steadily. The largest, the Newcastle has a strong reputation as a poetry centre.