Killingworth Village
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Killingworth Village, sometimes known as "Old Killingworth", is a small village south of the modern town of Killingworth
, and north of Forest Hall
in North Tyneside
, North East England
.
, and is faced with local stone, with bands of pink sandstone from a local quarry. It is surrounded by elm
and sycamore
trees, and ministers to a wide age-group including young families.
Killingworth Arms Football Club http://www.tmet07.co.uk is a Sunday league
team, in the North East Sunday Football League Division D.
Killingworth
Killingworth, formerly Killingworth Township, is a town north of Newcastle Upon Tyne, in North Tyneside, United Kingdom.Built as a planned town in the 1960s, most of Killingworth's residents commute to Newcastle, or the city's surrounding area. However, Killingworth itself has a sizeable...
, and north of Forest Hall
Forest Hall
Forest Hall is a village east of Benton in North Tyneside in the north of England.-Facilities:There are pubs, social clubs and a shopping centre with a variety of shops, take away food outlets and two restaurants. It has two supermarkets. One is Sainsbury's Local, which opened in November 2007...
in North Tyneside
North Tyneside
The Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside is a metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England and is part of the Tyneside conurbation. Its seat is Wallsend Town Hall....
, North East England
North East England
North East England is one of the nine official regions of England. It covers Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear, and Teesside . The only cities in the region are Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland...
.
St. John the Evangelist Church
The village church was designed by Bassett Keeling of LondonLondon
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, and is faced with local stone, with bands of pink sandstone from a local quarry. It is surrounded by elm
Elm
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the plant family Ulmaceae. The dozens of species are found in temperate and tropical-montane regions of North America and Eurasia, ranging southward into Indonesia. Elms are components of many kinds of natural forests...
and sycamore
Sycamore Maple
Acer pseudoplatanus, the sycamore maple, is a species of maple native to central Europe and southwestern Asia, from France east to Ukraine, and south in mountains to northern Spain, northern Turkey, and the Caucasus. It is not related to other trees called sycamore or plane tree in the Platanus...
trees, and ministers to a wide age-group including young families.
Public houses
There are two public houses in Killingworth Village: the Plough and The Killingworth Arms.Killingworth Arms Football Club http://www.tmet07.co.uk is a Sunday league
Sunday league football
Sunday league football is a term used in the United Kingdom to describe those association football leagues which play on Sunday, as opposed to the more usual Saturday. These leagues tend to be lower standard amateur competitions, whose players may have less ability, or less time to devote to...
team, in the North East Sunday Football League Division D.