West Harton is a Town in the county of Tyne and Wear.

West Harton postcode: NE34 0AL

Retail in West Harton

There are great places to visit near West Harton including some great towns, shopping centres, cities and airports.

Don't miss Gateshead's towns if visiting the area around West Harton.

The area around West Harton boasts some of the best shopping centres including Metrocentre, and Eldon Square.

There are a several good cities in the area around West Harton like Newcastle.

Newcastle International Airport is one of West Harton's best, nearby airports to visit in West Harton.

West Harton History

There are some historic monuments around West Harton:

• Lizard Lane Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery
• Defended settlement on Humbledon Hill
• Marsden lime kilns
• Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, two sections of Hadrian's Wall between Sharpe Road and The Avenue
• West Backworth medieval settlement, 300m south east of West Farm
• Colliery engine house at Washington F Pit, Albany
• First World War early warning acoustic mirror on Namey Hill, 570m north of Carley Hill Cricket Ground
• St Paul's Monastery, Jarrow
• Hylton Castle: a medieval fortified house, chapel, 17th and 18th century country houses and associated gardens
• Wardley moated site
• Tynemouth Iron Age and Romano-British settlements, monasteries, site of lighthouse, cross, motte, enclosure and artillery castles and later coastal defences
• Clifford's Fort
• Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, section between Eastfield Avenue and Tumulus Avenue
• Roman fort, South Shields
• Monkwearmouth Anglo-Saxon monastery and medieval priory
• Hasting Hill cursus and causewayed enclosure, 600m south of Hasting Hill Farm
• Round barrow on Hasting Hill, 230m west of Hasting Hill Farm
• Village of Jarrow
• Holy Cross Church and graveyard, Wallsend
• Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, Wallsend Roman fort, Segedunum