West Harton is a Town in the county of Tyne and Wear.

West Harton postcode: NE34 0AL

Retail in West Harton

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

Towns to visit near West Harton include Gateshead.

West Harton's best nearby shopping centres can be found at Metrocentre, and Eldon Square.

Cities to visit near West Harton include Newcastle.

There are a several good airports in the area around West Harton like Newcastle International Airport.

West Harton History

There are some historic monuments around West Harton:

• Wardley moated site
• Monkwearmouth Anglo-Saxon monastery and medieval priory
• Marsden lime kilns
• Village of Jarrow
• Holy Cross Church and graveyard, Wallsend
• Clifford's Fort
• Defended settlement on Humbledon Hill
• Hasting Hill cursus and causewayed enclosure, 600m south of Hasting Hill Farm
• Tynemouth Iron Age and Romano-British settlements, monasteries, site of lighthouse, cross, motte, enclosure and artillery castles and later coastal defences
• St Paul's Monastery, Jarrow
• West Backworth medieval settlement, 300m south east of West Farm
• Round barrow on Hasting Hill, 230m west of Hasting Hill Farm
• Roman fort, South Shields
• Lizard Lane Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery
• Hylton Castle: a medieval fortified house, chapel, 17th and 18th century country houses and associated gardens
• Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, section between Eastfield Avenue and Tumulus Avenue
• Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, two sections of Hadrian's Wall between Sharpe Road and The Avenue
• First World War early warning acoustic mirror on Namey Hill, 570m north of Carley Hill Cricket Ground
• Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, Wallsend Roman fort, Segedunum
• Colliery engine house at Washington F Pit, Albany