Gosforth Garden Village

HER Number:
12740

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Gosforth Garden Village

Place:
Gosforth

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Model Settlement

Site Type: Specific:
Garden Village

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Built by the North Eastern Railway in 1921 to the Garden Suburb model (a village laid out systematically with spacious garden-like surroundings). Includes Harewood Road, Grange Road, Strathmore Road, Langholm Road, Linthorpe Road Road, Granville Road plus some houses on the Great North Road and Broadway East.

Easting:
2442

Northing:
6910

Grid Reference:
NZ24426910

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, page 35