New York is a suburban village in the metropolitan county of
Tyne and Wear
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The county is ...
,
North East England
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. Approximately 4 miles from
Whitley Bay
Whitley Bay is a seaside town in the North Tyneside borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It was formerly governed as part of Northumberland and has been part of Tyne and Wear since 1974. It is part of the wider Tyneside built-up area, being around ...
, and 5 miles from the town of
Tynemouth
Tynemouth () is a coastal town in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, in Tyne and Wear, England. It is located on the north side of the mouth of the River Tyne, England, River Tyne, hence its name. It is east-northeast of Newcastle up ...
, it locally governed as part of the
metropolitan borough
A metropolitan borough (or metropolitan district) is a type of districts of England, local government district in England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, metropolitan boroughs are defined in English law as metropolitan distr ...
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 by Ne ...
. It was named after
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
New York may also refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* ...
, following the British capture of the city in 1777.
History
There had been a settlement in existence on the location of New York since
Anglo-Saxon England
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where it occupied a crossroads between
Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey and docks for
Lindisfarne
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Monastery. It did not have an official name until during the
American War of Independence
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when it was named "New York" after
New York City
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following the
British capture of the city. It was also due to the village being formally founded then and being located near a now-vanished village that similarly shared a name from the
Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were the British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America which broke away from the British Crown in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and joined to form the United States of America.
The Thirteen C ...
, "Philadelphia".
New York had its own blacksmiths' forge from the 1760s until 2016, when the landowner sold the land that it was leased on for redevelopment. New York was located near Algernon Colliery, until the coal pits closed in 1966.
[ The road to the pits crossed a disused ]London and North Eastern Railway
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line.North Shields
North Shields ( ) is a town in the borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It is north-east of Newcastle upon Tyne and borders nearby Wallsend and Tynemouth. The population of North Shields at the 2021–2022 United Kingdom cens ...
.
War memorial
In 1921, New York constructed a war memorial to victims of the First World War
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. It was designed by local architect W.H. Endean and was constructed out of sandstone in the shape of a celtic cross
upright 0.75 , A Celtic cross symbol
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. In 2012, it received grade II listed status for having a "...strong cultural and historical significance within both a local and national context". In 2014, North Tyneside Council
North Tyneside Council, or North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council, is the Local Government in England, local authority for the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a metropolitan borough council and provid ...
announced a £100,000 fund to repair local war memorials, including the New York War Memorial, in time for the centenary of the First World War.
See also
* Shiremoor Metro station
References
External links
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Villages in Tyne and Wear
Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside