Wideopen

This article is about the village in North Tyneside. For other places named 'Wideopen', see Wide Open.

Wideopen
Aerial view
Wideopen is located in Tyne and Wear
Wideopen
Wideopen
Location within Tyne and Wear
OS grid referenceNZ241728
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Postcode districtNE13
Dialling code0191
PoliceNorthumbria
FireTyne and Wear
AmbulanceNorth East
UK Parliament
List of places
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Tyne and Wear
55°03′00″N 1°37′26″W / 55.050°N 1.624°W / 55.050; -1.624

Wideopen, also occasionally misspelled as Wide Open, is a village in the North Tyneside metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, England, around 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Newcastle.

Wideopen adjoins the settlements of Seaton Burn, Brunswick Village and Hazlerigg. The village straddles the historic Great North Road, formerly the A1 trunk road, but is now bypassed by a new alignment of the A1 immediately to the west. The village lies in an area with a strong mining history and had its own colliery.[1] Weetslade Country Park, to the east of the village, is reclaimed from an extensive area of coal mining activity.[2]

In 2012 work commenced on the building of a new housing estate by Bellway homes, called Five Mile Park. It is located to the east of the Great North Road, between Lockey Park and Weetslade Country Park. The name refers to the distance from the centre of Newcastle; similarly, there is a Three Mile Inn to the south, and a Six Mile Bridge to the north.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference colliery was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Weetslade Country Park". nwt.org.uk. Northumberland Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)