Killingworth Village

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Killingworth Village
Northumberland

St John the Evangelist, Killingworth Village
Location
Grid reference: NZ2870
Location: 55°2’6"N, 1°34’1"W
Data
Population: 9,746  (2011)
Post town: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Postcode: NE12
Dialling code: 0191
Local Government
Council: North Tyneside
Parliamentary
constituency:
North Tyneside

Killingworth Village, sometimes known as "Old Killingworth", is a small village south of the modern town of Killingworth, and north of Forest Hall in Northumberland.

Parish church

The village church is St John the Evangelist. It was designed by Bassett Keeling of London, and is faced with local stone, with bands of pink sandstone from a local quarry. It is surrounded by elm and sycamore trees.

Big Society

Killingworth Village church hall

There are two public houses in Killingworth Village: the Plough and The Killingworth Arms.

Killingworth Arms Football Club[1] is the village's football team, a Sunday league team.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Killingworth Village)

References