| Population:
38,000; 275 miles (440 kilometres) north of London (3¼ hours by rail
to Newcastle, 6 hours by coach). Whitley Bay is a pleasant seaside
resort with fine sandy beaches. |
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It adjoins Tynemouth, an historic town which has a castle and
a new sealife centre. Newcastle upon Tyne, which offers a wealth of
amenities for leisure activities and the arts, as well as excellent
modern shopping facilities, is only 10 miles away by metro. Whitley
Bay is well placed for excursions to the major places of interest
of north-east England such as York, Hadrian's Wall, Durham, the North
of England Open-Air Museum at Beamish, the Northumberland Coast and
Holy Island as well as Edinburgh. |
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