Westgate is a Village in the county of County Durham.

Westgate postcode: DL13 1JJ

Retail in Westgate

There are great places to visit near Westgate including some great waterfalls, towns, country parks and airports.

Summerhill Force is one of Westgate's best, nearby waterfalls to visit in Westgate.

Stockton-on-Tees, and Middleton-in-Teesdale are some of Westgate best towns to visit near Westgate.

There are a several good country parks in the area around Westgate like Hardwick Country Park.

Westgate is near some unmissable airports like Teesside International Airport,

Westgate History

There are some historic monuments around Westgate:

• Tower house in the churchyard of St James's Church
• Burnt mound 570m east of Widdy Bank Farm
• Romano-British hut circle and enclosing bank and ditch immediately east of High Force Quarry
• Brandon Walls lead mine and ore works
• Middle Greenlaws Level lead mine and ore works
• Middlehope Shield and Low Slit lead mines and ore works
• Burnt mound on the south bank of Scar Beck, 510m south west of Mizzes House
• Medieval farmstead at High Knott, 380m west of West Force Garth
• Roman period native settlement at Calf Holm, immediately west of Dine Holm Scar
• Medieval farmstead at Pasture Foot, 510m north west of Bleabeck Force
• Coldberry lead mine and associated hushes
• Iron Age cemetery, early medieval enclosure and medieval farmstead with a long boundary, Middle Hurth Edge
• Roman period native settlements and field system, hut circle, bloomeries, lead smelting site and charcoal pits immediately south east of East Force Garth
• Pike Law lead hushes and mines
• Enclosure NW of Old Park House
• Cambokeels medieval site
• Camp at High Northgate
• Medieval farmstead, bloomery, charcoal pits and late prehistoric settlement at Pasture Foot, 300m west of Bleabeck Force
• Roman period native settlement and a bloomery 160m north west of Bleabeck Force
• Allenheads lead ore works
• Prehistoric settlements and cairnfield, medieval farmsteads, bloomeries and charcoal pits, 840m south of Cronkley on Bracken Rigg
• Prehistoric settlement and burnt mound at Bleabeck Washfold
• Roman period native settlement and field system 260m west of Wynch Bridge
• Burial cairns, burnt mound, Roman native settlement, medieval settlement with field system and iron industry remains, and five shielings on Holwick Fell
• Hut circle and enclosure 350m north west of Tarn Dub
• Medieval farmstead 390m south of Lodge Sike Farm
• Lead mining remains at Ramshaw
• Westgate Castle
• Old Rookhope ore hearth lead smeltmill, 630m north west of Lintzgarth Plantation