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.

West Harton is near some unmissable towns like Gateshead,

Shopping Centres to visit near West Harton include Metrocentre, and Eldon Square.

Newcastle is one of West Harton's best, nearby cities to visit in West Harton.

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:

• Tynemouth Iron Age and Romano-British settlements, monasteries, site of lighthouse, cross, motte, enclosure and artillery castles and later coastal defences
• 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
• Village of Jarrow
• St Paul's Monastery, Jarrow
• Marsden lime kilns
• Holy Cross Church and graveyard, Wallsend
• Clifford's Fort
• Wardley moated site
• Roman fort, South Shields
• Round barrow on Hasting Hill, 230m west of Hasting Hill Farm
• 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
• West Backworth medieval settlement, 300m south east of West Farm
• Colliery engine house at Washington F Pit, Albany
• Hasting Hill cursus and causewayed enclosure, 600m south of Hasting Hill Farm
• Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, Wallsend Roman fort, Segedunum
• Monkwearmouth Anglo-Saxon monastery and medieval priory
• Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, section between Eastfield Avenue and Tumulus Avenue