Tyne Dock is a Village in the county of Tyne and Wear.

Retail in Tyne Dock

There are great places to visit near Tyne Dock including some great towns, shopping centres, cities and airports.

Places near Tyne Dock feature a number of interesting towns including Gateshead.

The area around Tyne Dock features a number of interesting shopping centres including Metrocentre, and Eldon Square.

There are a several good cities in the area around Tyne Dock like Newcastle.

There are a number of airports near to Tyne Dock including Newcastle International Airport.

Tyne Dock History

There are some historic monuments around Tyne Dock:

• West Backworth medieval settlement, 300m south east of West Farm
• First World War early warning acoustic mirror on Namey Hill, 570m north of Carley Hill Cricket Ground
• Tynemouth Iron Age and Romano-British settlements, monasteries, site of lighthouse, cross, motte, enclosure and artillery castles and later coastal defences
• Colliery engine house at Washington F Pit, Albany
• Holy Cross Church and graveyard, Wallsend
• Defended settlement on Humbledon Hill
• Hylton Castle: a medieval fortified house, chapel, 17th and 18th century country houses and associated gardens
• Lizard Lane Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery
• Village of Jarrow
• Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, two sections of Hadrian's Wall between Sharpe Road and The Avenue
• Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, section between Eastfield Avenue and Tumulus Avenue
• Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, Wallsend Roman fort, Segedunum
• Clifford's Fort
• Wardley moated site
• Roman fort, South Shields
• Monkwearmouth Anglo-Saxon monastery and medieval priory
• Marsden lime kilns
• St Paul's Monastery, Jarrow