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.

The area around West Harton's best towns can be found at Gateshead.

There are a several good shopping centres in the West Harton area like Metrocentre, and Eldon Square.

The area around West Harton's best cities can be found at 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:

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