Lemington Gut (Newcastle upon Tyne)
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Formerly the main channel of the Tyne which took a sharp bend around Blaydon Haugh, it was cut across by the Tyne Improvement Commission in about 1880 to straighten the river and shorten it by three quarters of a mile giving deeper water at Blaydon and leaving the Gut as a backwater.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemington_Gut
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Coordinates: 54°58'24"N 1°42'27"W
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- Pity Me 20 km
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- Cockfield Fell 40 km
- Lead smelting Mill flue and chimney 40 km
- High Cup Nick 60 km
- Leyburn Shawl 74 km
- Shap Summit 78 km
- Former RAF Skipton on Swale 84 km
- Quarry 102 km
- Newburn Haugh Business Park 0.5 km
- Lemington 0.8 km
- Sugley Dene 0.8 km
- Stella Riverside Estate 1.5 km
- Blaydon Landfill Site 2.2 km
- Metro Retail Park 2.5 km
- Derwenthaugh Country Park 3.8 km
- Whickham Golf Club 5.3 km
- Gibside 5.6 km
- Sherburn Tower Farm 5.7 km