Chopwell
Sign in to saveChopwell is a village in the Gateshead district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England, west of Rowlands Gill and north of Hamsterley. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 9,395.
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Gateshead
- Population
- 3096
- Image
- Chopwell.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01207
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- postal code
- NE17
- Commons category
- Chopwell
- OS grid reference
- NZ119582
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Chopwell is a village in the Gateshead district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England, west of Rowlands Gill and north of Hamsterley. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 9,395.
In 1150, Bishop Pudsey granted the Manor of Chopwell to the first Abbot of Newminster. Newminster Abbey retained possession of the manor until the dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chopwell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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