Welcome to Newcastle@wiki, the place for the Elftowners of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Have any pictures of Newcastle or the surrounding area? Post them on this pictures wiki!
Have a favourite place to go to when you're in Newcastle? Post the details here, and you never know, your little place might get a bit more popular!
This is just a general list of links that will interest and inform you about Newcastle.
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Newcastle Facts
Some quick, quirky facts about Newcastle that you may never have known... Add your own to the list :)
●The Newcastle-Gate
shead metropolitan area has a population of 799,000.
●Newcastle has two Cathedrals: St. Nicholas and St. Mary's.
●Newcastle has one of the lowest mortality rates in the country.
●There are two universities in Newcastle: Newcastle University and Northumbria University.
●Newcastle has the largest Fenwicks department store in the world.
●Newcastle used to be known as Pons Aelius and Monkchester.
●The English phrase "Taking the piss" originates from Newcastle
●Newcastle has Englands finest street as voted by Britain: Grey Street.
●Newcastle has the UK's first Biotechnology Village, the "Centre for Life"
●Newcastle is the home of Newcastle Brown Ale. Known to the locals as a "bottle o' dog"
●The famous singer known as "Sting" is a born and bred geordie.
●Newcastle is better than anywhere else because all the best people live there ... statistics have shown :)
Newcastle Big Fact
After William Wallace was captured, he was paraded through Newcastle. When he reached London, William Wallace was hung, drawn and quartered, one of his legs was sent to Newcastle, where it hung on a gallow at the Gallow Gate. Where these gallows used to stand, there is now a multistorey car park called Gallow Gate Car Park. Want to visit? Look beind St James' Park...
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