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NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE Approach this impressive regional capital, if you can, from the south for a quick survey, from one of the five bridges that reach across the Tyne, of the city packed on the steep north bank.

It is a complex scene of blackened masses of old building, tall new blocks, the ornamental crown of St Nicholas Cathedral, the pretty spire of All Saints, the square-shouldered castle keep, the quays, warehouses and industry.

The city holds up, upon scrutiny, to the first impression of a rather special place, particularly in the area of most concern to visitors, the square mile between the riverside and the Town Moor.

Newcastle began as a minor fort and bridge on Hadrian's wall, which started from neighbouring Wallsend, the ship-building town on the east of Westgate Road now follows the line of the wall and vestiges can be seen along it.

A causeway crossing the vallum and relics of a temple can be found in residential Benwell, rather comically surrounded by tidy brick houses. After the Romans came an obscure religious colony known as Monkchester and then the Normans, who in 1080 established the "new castle" on the Roman site.

A stone castle replaced the wooden one from 1172 onward south of this, the very complete keep and 13th-cent. fortified Black Gate survive as museums now hemmed in by railway lines and the High Level Bridge. The restored battle- merited roof of the keep is a good place. Medieval Newcastle was a base for the continuous warfare with the Scot It lay inside 2 miles of city wall begun in 1280. A part of the restored West Wall can he seen in Rath Lane.

 

 

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