Hebburn

Hebburn is a town in the South Tyneside borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It was historically in County Durham and became part of Tyne and Wear in 1974. It is on the south bank of the River Tyne between Gateshead and Jarrow and opposite Wallsend and Walker. At the 2021 census the Hebburn built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics had a population of 21,345.

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UK place.country: England
UK place.official_name: Hebburn
UK place.population: 21,345
UK place.static_image_name: Aerial View of Hebburn Town Centre in South Tyneside (geograph 4110723).jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: Aerial view of the centre
UK place.metropolitan_borough: South Tyneside
UK place.metropolitan_county: Tyne and Wear
UK place.region: North East England
UK place.constituency_westminster: Jarrow and Gateshead East
UK place.post_town: HEBBURN
UK place.postcode_area: NE
UK place.postcode_district: NE31
UK place.dial_code: 0191
UK place.os_grid_reference: NZ318645

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Population: 16492
Image: Hebburn New Town geograph-2421048-by-Peter-McDermott.jpg
Dialing code: 0191

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postal code: NE31
OS grid reference: NZ318645
Commons category: Hebburn
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==History== thumb|left|Hebburn in 2011, with Westmoreland Court and Durham Court flats visible on the skyline. In Saxon times Hebburn was a small fishing hamlet upon the river Tyne. It is thought that the name Hebburn may be derived from the Old English terms, heah meaning "high", and byrgen meaning a "burial mound", though it could also mean the high place beside the water. The first record of Hebburn mentions a settlement of fishermen's huts in the 8th century, which were burned by the Vikings.