Killingworth Village is a small village in the borough of

North Tyneside North Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It forms part of the greater Tyneside conurbation. North Tyneside Council is headquartered at Cobalt Park, Wallsend. North Tyneside is bordered b ...

in the

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. It lies between

Forest Hall Forest Hall is a town in the borough of North Tyneside in the United Kingdom. It is a north eastern suburb of Newcastle and lies six kilometres from the city centre. It borders Killingworth to the north, Holystone to the east and Benton to the so ...

to the south and the modern

Killingworth Killingworth, formerly Killingworth Township, is a town in North Tyneside, England. Killingworth was built as a planned town in the 1960s, next to Killingworth Village, which existed for centuries before the Township. Other nearby towns and ...

, which derives its name from the village, to the north. The West Lane runs through the village from Forest Hall and on to

Backworth Backworth is a village in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England, about west of Whitley Bay on the north east coast. It lies northeast of Newcastle. Other nearby towns include North Shields to the sou ...

. For local government, it is located within Killingworth ward.

St John's Church

Until the mid nineteenth century the village was part of Longbenton parish, but became a parish in its own right in 1865. Four years later, in 1869, Killingworth parish church was built; it was designed by

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architect Bassett Keeling, and named St John's after

John the Evangelist John the Evangelist ( grc-gre, Ἰωάννης, Iōánnēs; Aramaic: ܝܘܚܢܢ; Ge'ez: ዮሐንስ; ar, يوحنا الإنجيلي, la, Ioannes, he, יוחנן cop, ⲓⲱⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ or ⲓⲱ̅ⲁ) is the name traditionally given t ...

. The walls are built of

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, adorned with red bands, and the roof is

Welsh slate The existence of a slate industry in Wales is attested since the Roman period, when slate was used to roof the fort at Segontium, now Caernarfon. The slate industry grew slowly until the early 18th century, then expanded rapidly until the l ...

. The building cost £2032 (or roughly £250,000 in 2021 sterling). It was inaugurated on 28 December 1869, one day after St John's feast day. File:Killingworth Village St John 2.jpg, St John's Church - 7 May 2006 File:Killingworth Village St John 1.jpg, St John's Community Hall - 7 May 2006

Public Houses

Despite the exceedingly small size of the village there are two

pub A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and was ...

s in Killingworth Village: the Plough and the Killingworth Arms. The two establishments are a mere two hundred and fifty metres apart. Killingworth Arms Football Club is a Sunday league team, in the North East Sunday Football League Division D. File:Plough pub, Killingworth Village.jpg, Plough - 7 May 2006 File:Killingworth Arms.jpg, Killingworth Arms - 7 May 2006

References

External links

"Sitelines" (Newcastle local history site), page includes records of historical activity in the Killingworth Village area

Killingworth Photos and Videos group on Facebook contains over 680 old and new local photos, school photos, 11 videos and discussion
{{authority control Villages in Tyne and Wear Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside