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Forsyth Street, NORTH SHIELDS, NE29 8ED

A large, George VI-reign postbox standing outside the post office.

A social club in the New York area of North Tyneside.

This is the section of footpath shown at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6459468 but viewed from the opposite end where it seems, at first sight, to offer a clearer route to the gate shown at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6459463. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northytnesidewalks.co.uk

This is a rear view of the small stables which have their entrance on Murton Lane. The make do, patchwork boundary fence suggests that this is very much a low cost operation. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk

It is thought that a forge has stood on this site since the mid-18th century. However, as this point was once an important medieval crossroads linking the monasteries of Lindisfarne and Jarrow, it is conceivable that a forge stood here long before the mid-18th century. When the first Ordnance Survey Six-Inch map of the area was published in 1865, the forge was not named on the map although the adjacent building was referred to as the 'Traveller's Rest (P.H.)'. When the 1898 Ordnance Survey map was published, the public house no longer existed and the only property shown and named on the map at this point was a 'Smithy'. This gives weight to the belief that the current brick building was built at some time between the publication of the two maps. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk

This rather makeshift gate/gap in the fence leads to a housing estate on the north side of New York. It lies on the line of a public footpath https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6459449 which continues, in more or less a straight line, beyond the gate although that section of the footpath now seems to be little-walked. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk

This is the section of public footpath referred to at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6459463 which now appears to be little-utilised. It seems that walkers prefer to take the alternative route through the gap in the fence leading to the Housing Estate at New York. Both routes culminate at the same point. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk

Running south from New York, Westminster Avenue passes underneath the A191.

A footpath crosses farmland connecting the estate of New York and the small village of Murton.