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.

Places near West Harton feature a number of interesting towns including Gateshead.

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

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

The area close to West Harton boasts some of the best airports including Newcastle International Airport.

West Harton History

There are some historic monuments around West Harton:

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