Shieldfield is a small district in the east of the

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. It is bordered by the

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, Heaton,

Byker Byker is a district in the east of the city and metropolitan borough of Newcastle upon Tyne. Home to the Byker Wall estate, made famous by TV series ''Byker Grove'', Byker’s population was recorded at 12,206 in the 2011 census. Byker is borde ...

and

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History

The name of the district is considered to be a reference to a shelter in the forest clearing, derived from Anglo-Saxon sources. During the

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, King Charles I was permitted to play golf at Shieldfield whilst he was held prisoner at Newcastle by Parliamentarian forces. The building where he would rest, King Charles House, was demolished in 1960 to make way for the new council estate. This is commemorated by a plaque within Shieldfield Green, and reflected in the naming of King Charles Tower adjacent to the site. The area was increasingly urbanised during the 19th Century and by 1881 contained many houses for the employees of nearby factories. The population at this time was 12,826, living in 2,253 units of accommodation (mostly flats). There were also 16 pubs and 19 'beer shops' which permitted patrons to drink on the premises. By the 1930s there were more than 90 shops in the area. The district largely consists of a council estate, with a few streets of Victorian terraced houses. The former Methodist Church for Shieldfield remains consecrated but is a gallery calle
Shieldfield Art Works
Over the last decade, developments have seen a number of Halls of Residence constructed to accommodate students from the nearby

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, and in 2007 Northumbria University opened its new state of the art 'City Campus East' on the site of the former Warner Brothers cinema. An inscribed granite tablet on nearby Falconar Street marks the birthplace of

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Transport

Bus services are provided by

Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive Tyne and Wear PTE, branded as Nexus, is an executive body of the North East Joint Transport Committee and is best known for owning and operating the Tyne and Wear Metro. It replaced the Tyneside PTE on 1 April 1974. Operations TWPTE is responsi ...

under the brand name Nexus, and also by

Stagecoach North East Stagecoach North East operates both local and regional bus services in County Durham, Northumberland, North Yorkshire and Tyne and Wear, England. It is a subsidiary of the Stagecoach Group, which operates bus, coach, rail and tram services acro ...

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provides train service from the nearby

Manors railway station Manors is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between and . The station serves the Quayside and Shieldfield areas of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in Tyne and Wear, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by N ...

. The A167(M) Central Motorway has a junction with the A193 near Shieldfield.

References

Districts of Newcastle upon Tyne {{TyneandWear-geo-stub