IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Cromwell Ford Way, BLAYDON-ON-TYNE, NE21 4FH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Cromwell Ford Way, NE21 4FH by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (27 Images Found)
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1
River Tyne and New Housing Development at Ryton Haugh
Image: © Les Hull
Taken: 26 Oct 2011
0.01 miles
2
Cromwell Ford Way, South Stella, Blaydon
A sharp bend in the River Tyne at this location (left of the path) is known by the name 'Cromwell' Image
In 1128, the name was 'Crumbwell'. 'Crumbe' is Old English for a bend (in a river), 'Crumb' means 'crooked', 'wella' means 'spring' and 'wel' means 'deep pool'. Thus 'spring in or by the river bend' or 'crooked winding stream'. At one time it was owned by the bishop of Durham and was an important location for fishing. The main catch would have been salmon, but eels, pike, minnow, burbot, trout and lamprey would also have been taken.
http://www.twsitelines.info/SMR/1695
There was, however, a ford here at one time, and also a connection with Oliver Cromwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_cromwell
The Protector's army camped on Ryton Haugh while he himself quartered at Stella House, before crossing the river at this point, on the march to Dunbar in 1650.
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 22 Feb 2013
0.02 miles
3
Cromwell Ford Way, South Stella, Blaydon
See photo here Image
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 4 Apr 2013
0.02 miles
4
Stella South housing development off King Oswald Drive, Blaydon
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 22 Feb 2013
0.04 miles
5
Stella power station
Shunting coal waggons at Stella Power station, now demolished.
Image: © Roger Cornfoot
Taken: Unknown
0.04 miles
6
King Oswald Drive, Stella South, Blaydon
Part of the Stella Riverside housing development on the former site of Stella South Power Station Image
Blaydon Race Course, scene of the Geordie anthem, 'The Blaydon Races', written in the 19th century by Geordie Ridley, was located in this area of Stella Haugh 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Blaydon. Stella South Power Station was built on the site of the by then disused race track in the early 1950s.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/jan/12/newcastle
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 22 Feb 2013
0.07 miles
7
Stella North & South Power stations
The Stella power stations were commissioned in 1955/56 and were closed in 1990. Seen in this view looking down river from Newburn Bridge.
Image: © Chris Bell
Taken: 31 Oct 1987
0.07 miles
8
New houses at Stella South
The same location one year earlier is shown here Image
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 1 Jan 2015
0.09 miles
9
King Oswald Drive, Stella South, Blaydon
Similar location to Image
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 1 Jan 2015
0.09 miles
10
River Tyne: Cromwell
The section of the river upstream from Scotswood and Blaydon was subject to realignment by the Tyne Improvement Commission in the late C19th for shipping serving Spencer's Steel Works in Newburn. Larger scale maps show this particular stretch between Newburn Haugh and Stella as 'Cromwell' although I'm not sure why. The picture is taken from an old Ash Quay that served the Stella North Power Station
Image: © Anthony Foster
Taken: 13 Jan 2013
0.09 miles