Killingworth Township

HER Number

9758

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Killingworth Township

Place

Killingworth

Map Sheet

NZ27SE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Settlement

Site Type: Specific

Town

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Killingworth Township lies north-west of the medieval settlement. Planned in the 1960s as a settlement for 20,000 but in 1991 only 8,518 people lived there. The scheme architect was R.J.A. Gazzard for Longbenton Urban District Council. The township includes an artificial lake crossed by a road leading to various commercial and public facilities. There is a large network of houses and an industrial estate. The blocks of concrete deck-housing were demolished in 1989 and new houses have been added since 1970 and a supermarket.

Easting

427250

Northing

571330

Grid Reference

NZ427250571330

Sources

N. Pevsner and I. Richmond (second edition revised by J. Grundy, G. McCombie, P. Ryder, H. Welfare) 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, pages 361-362