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| region                   = North East England
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'''Gosforth''' is an area of [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], England, situated north of the [[Newcastle City Centre|City Centre]]. It constituted a separate [[Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|urban district]] of [[Northumberland]] from 1895 until 1974 before officially merging with the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 2001, it had a population of 23,620.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Expodata/Spreadsheets/D8271.xls |publisher=[[Office for National Statistics]] |title=Census 2001 : Urban Areas : Table KS01 : Usual Resident Population |access-date=26 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208210730/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Expodata/Spreadsheets/D8271.xls |archive-date=8 February 2007  }}</ref>

The [[Ouseburn]] divides Gosforth from [[Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne|High Heaton]] and [[Longbenton]] to the east, while the smaller Craghall Burn forms the boundary with [[Jesmond]] and the [[Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne|Town Moor]] to the south. [[Kenton, Newcastle upon Tyne|Kenton]] and [[Coxlodge]] lie to the west. There are four [[ward (politics)|electoral wards]] on [[Newcastle City Council]] that include parts of Gosforth: Dene and South Gosforth, Fawdon and West Gosforth, [[Gosforth (ward)|Gosforth]], and [[Parklands, Newcastle upon Tyne|Parklands]].

== History ==
The origin of the area's name is thought to have come from 'Gese Ford', meaning 'the [[Ford (crossing)|ford]] over the Ouse', referring to a crossing over the local [[Ouseburn|River Ouse or Ouseburn]]. However, as it is first recorded as 'Goseford' in 1166, others think that the name originates from the Old English 'Gosaford', meaning 'a ford where the geese dwell'.<ref>{{cite book |title=Northumberland Place-Names |author=Stan Beckensall |publisher=Butler Publishing, [[Thropton]], [[Morpeth, Northumberland|Morpeth]], [[Northumberland]], NE65 7LP |isbn=0-946928-41-X |year=2004}}</ref> [[Richard Welford]] notes that the names of North and South Gosforth come from the north and south of the River Ouse.<ref name=Welford>{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Welford |title=A History of the Parish of Gosforth, In the County of Northumberland |publisher=Walter D. Welford, Newcastle upon Tyne |year=c. 1879}}</ref> South Gosforth was first mentioned in 1319, when it was noted that the [[English Army]] retreated there from a siege on [[Berwick-upon-Tweed|Berwick]].<ref>{{cite book |first=William |last=Whellan |title=History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8-kGAAAAYAAJ |quote=The village of South Gosforth is situated two and a half miles [4&nbsp;km] north-east by north of Newcastle. Here it was that the English army retreated when on its way to the siege of [[Berwick-upon-Tweed|Berwick]], in 1319. |year=1855 |publisher=Whellan and Co. |access-date=4 May 2008 |page=454}}</ref> According to the 19th-century publication, ''[[Samuel Lewis (publisher)|A Topographical Dictionary of England]]'', the township of Gosforth was held of the crown by the Surtees family from 1100 to 1509, when it passed by marriage to [[Brandling of Newcastle|Robert Brandling]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Samuel |last=Lewis |author-link=Samuel Lewis (publisher) |title=A Topographical Dictionary of England |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50985 |access-date=30 September 2008}}</ref>

=== Parishes and urban districts ===
{{main article|Gosforth Urban District}}
[[File:Gosforth Fire Station (geograph 7710807) (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Gosforth Council Offices]]]]
In 1777, Gosforth contained seven townships of North Gosforth, South Gosforth, Coxlodge, Kenton, Fawdon, East Brunton and West Brunton.<ref name=Welford/> By order of the Local Government Board on 20 September 1872, the parishes of South Gosforth and [[Coxlodge]] were constituted into a district, governed by the South Gosforth Local Board. In 1894, the Local Government Board was succeeded by [[Gosforth Urban District|Gosforth Urban District Council]], based at [[Gosforth Council Offices]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=45971|page=5740|date=8 May 1973}}</ref>

=== Mining ===
In the 19th century, Gosforth was the location of a number of collieries, including the Gosforth<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/g009.htm |title=Gosforth Colliery |publisher=The Durham Mining Museum |access-date=4 May 2008}}</ref> and Coxlodge Collieries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/c039.htm |title=Coxlodge Colliery |publisher=The Durham Mining Museum |access-date=4 May 2008}}</ref> Gosforth Colliery was located in South Gosforth, while Coxlodge Colliery was west of the Great North Road. Coxlodge Colliery comprised three pits;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://twsitelines.info/SMR/4013 |title=Coxlodge Colliery, Regent Pit |work=Twsitelines.info |access-date=4 April 2019}}</ref> the Bower Pit, the Regent or Engine Pit, where the Regent Centre now stands, and the Jubilee or North Pit further west on Jubilee Road.

===Bulman Village===
The modern-day centre of Gosforth, straddling the [[Great North Road (Great Britain)|Great North Road]] (here called Gosforth High Street), originated in 1826 as a settlement known for several decades as Bulman Village. It originally consisted of a number of properties large enough to qualify occupiers for the franchise (so-called 'forty shilling freeholders' (£2)), built by the Bulman family in an attempt to provide voters for their cause in the 1826 elections. A stone bearing the name 'Bulman Village' survives and was incorporated in the façade of a later building, the [[Halifax (United Kingdom bank)|Halifax Bank]] building<ref name="chroniclelive.co.uk">{{cite news |url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/23-things-you-might-only-11124821 |title=23 things you might only know if you live in Gosforth |newspaper=The Evening Chronicle |date=1 April 2016 |access-date=20 December 2017}}</ref> north of the Brandling Arms public house.

The Blacksmith's Arms public house on Gosforth High Street stands on the site of the original blacksmith's forge.

=== Population ===
At the [[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 census]] there were 23,620 people living in Gosforth. In the 19th century Gosforth's population was largely deemed by the coal trade. In 1801 there were 1,385 inhabitants, most of whom lived in Kenton, and were employed in the colliery there. In 1831 the population had risen to 3,546, partly due to the opening of the Fawdon and Coxlodge collieries. Between 1831 and 1871 the population only grew by a very small amount to 3,723, due to the pits at Fawdon and Kenton having ceased to function.<ref name=Welford/>

=== Archaeological finds ===
There have been a number of archaeological finds in Gosforth,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/msl_local_histories_g?opendocument&ID=msl101 |title=Local Histories G – Gosforth |publisher=Site Lines |access-date=14 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522100808/http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/msl_local_histories_g?opendocument&ID=msl101 |archive-date=22 May 2011  }}</ref> with the earliest piece being a prehistoric flint flake that was found in 1959.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/Siteline.nsf/SMR/06EA83A99156A7BA802576AF003E47FB?opendocument |title=Tyne and Wear HER(1343): Gosforth, flint flake – Details |publisher=Site Lines |access-date=14 March 2010 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 1863 a 2nd-century Greek Colonial coin was found in a garden in Bulman Village.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/Siteline.nsf/SMR/A3A49F22FCAE2056802576AF003E4807?opendocument |title=Tyne and Wear HER(1349): Gosforth, Roman coin – Details |publisher=Site Lines |access-date=14 March 2010 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> A [[Roman Britain|Roman]] altar was found in North Gosforth.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/Siteline.nsf/SMR/55EAAF7BD0072DC8802576AF003E3C5A?opendocument |title=Tyne and Wear HER(169): North Gosforth, Roman altar from the Chapel – Details |publisher=Site Lines |access-date=14 March 2010 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

== Landmarks ==
[[File:Regent Centre2.JPG|thumb|Some of the [[Regent Centre]] buildings|alt=A roundabout with a number of 1970s office blocks and green landscaping]]
Gosforth has a large business complex called the [[Regent Centre]]. Gosforth's main high school is [[Gosforth Academy]], and some of the private schools in Gosforth are [[Westfield School, Newcastle upon Tyne|Westfield School]] (for girls) and [[Newcastle School for Boys]]. [[St Nicholas Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne|St Nicholas Hospital]] is also located in Gosforth, which houses the [[Jubilee Theatre]], a Victorian Theatre built in 1899.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.juniperproductions.org.uk/?p=theatre |title=Theatre |publisher=Juniper Productions |access-date=5 April 2008 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928181700/http://www.juniperproductions.org.uk/?p=theatre |archive-date=28 September 2007  }}</ref>

== Areas of Gosforth ==
Apart from South Gosforth, many residential districts of Gosforth are suffixed "Park". There is <!-- Alphabetical order -->Bridge Park, Brunton Park, [[Gosforth Park]] (including [[Newcastle Racecourse]]), Grange Park, Greystoke Park, Grove Park, Kingston Park, Melton Park, [[Newcastle Great Park]] and Whitebridge Park. East of the Great North Road, Garden Village was developed on 'garden suburb' lines in the 1920s to house workers at the nearby [[London & North Eastern Railway]] electric train depot (now the [[South Gosforth Depot#South Gosforth Depot|Tyne & Wear Metro depot]]).
 
Areas of Gosforth have been used as a filming locations for television shows and films. [[Newcastle Racecourse|Gosforth Park]] was used as a location in 1971's ''[[Get Carter]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/g/getcarter.html |title=Get Carter |publisher=Movie Locations |access-date=13 March 2010 |archive-date=26 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226190628/http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/g/getcarter.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Whitebridge Park which was used in an episode of ''[[Wire in the Blood]]''. Melton Park has the ruins of a [[chapel]] which dates back to early [[medieval]] or late [[Normans|Norman times]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2006/05/18/norman_chapel_faith_feature.shtml |title=Hidden Chapel in Gosforth estate |work=BBC News |date=19 May 2006 |access-date=5 April 2008}}</ref>

Brunton Park is a neighbouring estate to the Newcastle Great Park. The oldest parts in the estate have existed since the early 1930s. The rest of the estate was built during the 1940s and 1950s. It contains a number of local convenience shops. One of the newest expansions of the city is called [[Newcastle Great Park]] in the very north of Newcastle.

== Sports and entertainment ==
[[File:NFC ball on pitch.jpg|alt=northernfc.rfu.club|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Northern Football Club]] play [[rugby union]] at [[McCracken Park]]]]
[[File:Gosforth Pool.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Gosforth Swimming Pool|alt=A swimming pool and gym complex behind a road and trees]]
Gosforth has sports facilities such as Gosforth Swimming Pool among others. Famous sportsmen from Gosforth include footballer [[Alan Shearer]] and athlete [[Jonathan Edwards (triple jumper)|Jonathan Edwards]]. The swimming pool was given a slight revamp during early 2011.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/evening-chronicle-news/2011/08/05/gosforth-pool-s-80k-revamp-is-hailed-by-users-72703-29183768/ |title=Gosforth Pool's £80k revamp is hailed by users |newspaper=Evening Chronicle |date=5 August 2011 |access-date=29 August 2011}}</ref> [[Newcastle Racecourse]] is based in Gosforth Park.

Gosforth has had a long connection with local rugby football, currently being home to Newcastle's oldest rugby club, [[Northern Football Club]] (founded 1875).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northernfc.co.uk/history.htm |title=History |publisher=Northern Rugby Club |access-date=28 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106004211/http://www.northernfc.co.uk/history.htm |archive-date=6 January 2009  }}</ref> Northern's home is [[McCracken Park]] located on the Great North Road. Also nearby is namesake of the current incarnation of the [[Gosforth Rugby Club]] (originally formed in 1877). The city's rugby club, the [[Newcastle Falcons]], was also originally based in Gosforth, also originally being called Gosforth Rugby Club, and later Newcastle Gosforth.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gosforthrfc.fsnet.co.uk/history.htm |title=Club History |publisher=Gosforth Rugby Club |access-date=28 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041206164329/http://www.gosforthrfc.fsnet.co.uk/history.htm |archive-date=6 December 2004 }}</ref> [[Gosforth Central Park]] has two bowling greens (one now used as a public 'quiet area') with a women's and a men's club, two tennis courts, a basketball court and a fenced playground area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/gosforthcentralpark |title=Gosforth Central Park |publisher=Newcastle City Council |access-date=28 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070424061503/http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/gosforthcentralpark |archive-date=24 April 2007  }}</ref>

Gosforth has a number of golf courses including the City of Newcastle Golf Club, High Gosforth Golf Course and Gosforth Golf Course, which is a {{convert|90|acre|m2|adj=on}} [[golf course]] that opened in 1906.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gosforthgolfclub.com/ |title=Gosforth Golf Club |publisher=Gosforth Golf Club |access-date=26 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100808021420/http://www.gosforthgolfclub.com/ |archive-date=8 August 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  Gosforth has been home to the South Northumberland Cricket Club since 1892,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.southnorth.co.uk/101-South-North-Bulls.html |title=South North Bulls |publisher=South Northumberland Cricket Club |access-date=26 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723221705/http://www.southnorth.co.uk/101-South-North-Bulls.html |archive-date=23 July 2008  }}</ref> which is home itself to the South North Bulls team.

Gosforth formerly had two cinemas, the Royalty Cinema on the High Street and the Globe Cinema on Salters Road.<ref name="chroniclelive.co.uk"/> The Royalty Cinema opened on 17 October 1934 and closed on 30 December 1981.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.royaltycinema.com/ |title=Royalty Cinema |publisher=Royalty Cinema |access-date=26 July 2008}}</ref> A video documentary, ''Last Reel at the Royalty'', viewable online was produced about the cinema's history. The Globe Cinema later became a [[Bingo (UK)|bingo hall]] and is now Poon's Gosforth Palace Chinese restaurant.

The ground on which the [[Asda|Asda supermarket]] stands was formerly the [[Gosforth Greyhound Stadium]] until the late 1980s and the home of Northumberland RFU. The stadium had also previously been a Speedway Track from 1929 to 1930.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.defunctspeedway.co.uk/Gosforth.htm |title=Gosforth (Newcastle) |publisher=Defunct Speedway |access-date=6 April 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2010/09/09/stadiums-that-came-and-went-61634-27231253/ |title=Stadiums that came and went  |publisher=The Journal |date=9 September 2010 |access-date=25 September 2010}}</ref>

== Business ==
[[File:Northern Rock Tower - 1 October 2008.jpg|thumb|[[Partnership House]], originally intended as the new headquarters of [[Northern Rock]] prior to its collapse, now primarily used by [[Clifford Chance]]|alt=A semi-circular cylinder shaped tower building that is ten storeys tall, faced in glass and sandstone]]
[[File:Virgin Money Gosforth 2021 Bowls Club 2.jpg|thumb|[[Virgin Money UK|Virgin Money]] savings and mortgages business headquarters, formerly Northern Rock|alt=A number of black/grey buildings and taller sandstone and glass building, used as the headquarters of the Northern Rock bank]]
Many businesses have offices in the [[Regent Centre]] complex, near the High Street, as well as other business parks including Gosforth Industrial Estate, located near the Metro train sheds, and Gosforth Business Park, located between Gosforth Park and nearby [[Longbenton]].

Gosforth houses Jubilee House, the headquarters of the savings and mortgages business of [[Virgin Money UK|Virgin Money]]. The building was previously known as Northern Rock House, however in 2008 Northern Rock faced huge difficulties in the [[subprime mortgage crisis]] and was [[Nationalisation of Northern Rock|nationalised]]. Virgin Money bought Northern Rock from the British Government in 2012 and promised not to make any of the former Northern Rock employees redundant.

Northern Rock had a landmark tower building, built in the 1960s, which in the 2000s was replaced with a 10-storey office building; [[Partnership House]], as it is now known since being sold by the bank, now houses companies including law firm [[Clifford Chance]] and video games developer [[Ubisoft Reflections]]. Other resident companies of [[Regent Centre]] include the [[National Health Service (England)|National Health Service]] (NHS).

[[Greggs]], the largest national retail bakery, originally started with John Gregg's single shop on Gosforth High Street in 1951; initially Greggs was known as Greggs of Gosforth.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greggs.co.uk/how-greggs-began |title=How Greggs Began |publisher=[[Greggs]] |access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref> In 1968 Greggs opened their first large-scale bakery on the Gosforth Industrial Estate, but in 2011 moved to a £16.5 million site in Gosforth Business Park on Gosforth Park Way.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/latest-business-news/2011/12/01/bakery-giant-greggs-opens-doors-on-16-5m-site-51140-29873818/ |title=Bakery giant Greggs opens doors on £16.5m site |publisher=The Journal |date=1 December 2011 |access-date=7 January 2012}}</ref> In 2012 the Greggs on the High Street was given a concept makeover depicting their 'Greggs the Bakery' format.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.designweek.co.uk/news/philip-watts-creates-new-greggs-concept/3034878.article |title=Philip Watts creates new Greggs concept |magazine=Design Week |date=10 July 2012 |access-date=15 July 2012}}</ref>

[[Procter & Gamble on Tyneside|Procter & Gamble plc]] formerly had their UK head office in Newcastle, at Hedley House, Gosforth, that was developed in the 1950s. The principal building in this complex, Hedley House itself (c. 1953) was designed by Sidney Burn, staff architect to [[Thomas Hedley Co.|Thos. Hedley & Co.]], soap manufacturers, in association with consultant architect Anthony Chitty. In 1963/64 an addition to the site included a computer block by Sir [[Basil Spence]] (1963/64). The landscape setting was designed by B. Hackett. The 1994 extension to the site (now demolished) won the 1994 New Building Category in the Lord Mayor's Design Awards. Procter & Gamble left the site in 2001 to move to [[Cobalt Business Park]], near the eastern city boundary with [[North Tyneside]], and the Gosforth land is now used for residential properties.<ref name="conservation">{{cite web |url=http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/wwwfileroot/regen/plantrans/conservation/Gosforth_CA_CS.pdf |title=Gosforth Conservation Area Character Statement |publisher=Newcastle City Council |access-date=13 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101011071448/http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/wwwfileroot/regen/plantrans/conservation/Gosforth_CA_CS.pdf |archive-date=11 October 2010  }}</ref>

The [[Sage Group]] had its headquarters in Newcastle Great Park (in an office complex called "North Park") which is just north of Gosforth in [[Newcastle Great Park|Newcastle]]; another office complex called Esh Plaza is also located in Newcastle Great Park. In 2004 Sage moved its headquarters to this location from a site near Haddricks Mill Roundabout, and moved again to [[Cobalt Park]] in 2021.

== Shopping ==
[[File:Gosforth Shopping Sainsburys.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Gosforth Shopping Centre, showing Sainsbury's at left. There is a car park on the roof.|alt=A 1970s monolithic shopping centre, mostly grey/brown in colour. In the foreground the busy high street with a number of travelling cars.]]
Gosforth High Street has been home to local shops for over a hundred years.<ref name=tim>{{cite web |url=http://www.timarchive.freeuk.com/html/gosfhist.htm |title=Gosforth High Street |publisher=TimArchive |date=25 November 2000 |access-date=5 April 2008}}</ref> Shops on the High Street include a branch of [[Boots Group|Boots]], Thorpes (a well established local hardware store), estate agents, hairdressers and banks, among many others. In 1979 the Gosforth Shopping Centre opened on the High Street and connects to [[Gosforth Central Park]]; shops here include a [[Sainsbury's]] and a [[WHSmith]]. There is also a branch of [[Virgin Money UK|Virgin Money]] and a [[Cancer Research UK|Cancer Research]] charity shop. The park was created on the site of a former nursery for £10,000 and opened on 6 August 1932.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gosforthlife.co.uk/gosforth-history.htm |title=Gosforth History |publisher=Gosforth Life |access-date=4 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509165323/http://www.gosforthlife.co.uk/gosforth-history.htm |archive-date=9 May 2008  }}</ref> A theatre stood on part of the site of the Gosforth Shopping Centre. The stage faced the park and a huge door could be opened to entertain an outdoor audience. The theatre was damaged in a fire shortly before the Shopping Centre was built.

Many shops have come and gone from Gosforth High Street over the years, including familiar names such as: Robinson's Pet Shop which was near Elmfield Road; Boydell's Toys on the corner of Hawthorn Road; Maynard's sweet shop, the Toddle Inn Cafe and Laidlaw's hardware and decorating store – all of which were situated opposite the junction with St Nicholas Avenue; and Moods – a stationery and gift shop – which stood where the Gosforth Centre is now, opposite Ivy Road.

The High Street had a [[Woolworths (United Kingdom)|Woolworths]] store,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newsguardian.co.uk/latest-news/Woolworths-stores-to-close.4836949.jp |title=Woolworths Stores to close |work=News Guardian |date=5 January 2009 |access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref> which closed on 3 January 2009, due to the company being in administration. On 10 December the former Woolworths store reopened as a [[Co-operative Food]] store,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/2009/11/23/whitley-bay-woolworths-store-taken-over-72703-25231758/ |title=Whitley Bay Woolworths store taken over |work=[[The Evening Chronicle]] |date=23 November 2009 |access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref> after plans to change the store into an Italian restaurant were rejected. The branch closed in 2016, being replaced with a [[McColl's|McColls]] convenience store, which has also now closed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/co-op-announces-plans-sell-11614748|title=Co-op announces plans to sell 19 stores around the North East to rival|first=Graeme|last=Whitfield|date=14 July 2016|work=chroniclelive.co.uk}}</ref>

The car park on the corner of the High Street and Salters Road is the former site of a primary school.<ref name="conservation"/>

In spring 2009 local councillors, Trinity Church and Gavin Black (agent for Gosforth Shopping Centre) were working on a strategy for developing Gosforth High Street. Gavin Black were wishing to use a covered entrance near Trinity, bring the entrance of the shopping centre forward. This was hoped to tie in with the Trinity Square development, on the area of land in front of the church. Trinity Square, now completed, is hoped to be the focal point of the High Street, giving a space for [[farmers' market]]s, street theatre and other community activities. There may be a raised paved link across to the shopping centre. This project cost around £400,000. There was to be a mall refurbishment costing £600,000 in 2010. As of late 2009 units 22 and 23 were currently under discussion for a possible restaurant site. Nick Cott, Councillor for West Gosforth ward, noted that current discussions were about transport issues and environmental improvements.

Gosforth Shopping Centre is owned by Drum who purchased it in 2016 for £12.25 million.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/gosforth-shopping-centre-set-upgrades-11419774 |title=Gosforth Shopping Centre set for upgrades after being bought for £12.25m |date=2 June 2016 |access-date=8 April 2019}}</ref> Its previous owner for more than a decade was [[Graham Wylie]], co-founder of the [[Sage Group]], which itself was headquartered just outside Gosforth in the [[North Park (Newcastle)|North Park]] development, who had bought it for £9.25 million.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/archive/2005/06/07/The+North+East+Archive/6949674.Sage_founder_s_next_success_looks_like_a_racing_certainty/ |title=Sage founder's next success looks like a racing certainty |newspaper=The Northern Echo |date=5 July 2005 |access-date=17 February 2011}}</ref>

=== Public houses ===
The Brandling Arms pub on the High Street has its own local edition of My Monopoly, using Gosforth locations. Other pubs on Gosforth High Street are the Gosforth Hotel (built 1878),<ref>{{cite web |title=Gosforth, High Street, No. 205, Gosforth Hotel Public House |url=https://twsitelines.info/SMR/9995 |website=sitelines.newcastle.gov.uk |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=en |date=26 May 2021}}</ref> the Queen Victoria (known for a short time as Northern Lights),<ref>{{cite web |title=Gosforth, High Street, No. 206, Queen Victoria Public House |url=https://www.twsitelines.info/SMR/9966 |website=sitelines.newcastle.gov.uk |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=en |date=26 May 2021}}</ref> the Blacksmith's Arms,<ref>{{cite web |title=Gosforth, High Street, Blacksmith's Arms Public House |url=https://www.twsitelines.info/SMR/15626 |website=sitelines.newcastle.gov.uk |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=en |date=26 May 2021}}</ref> Barca (formally Earl Grey)<ref>{{cite web |title=Gosforth, High Street, Earl Grey Public House |url=https://www.twsitelines.info/SMR/15625 |website=sitelines.newcastle.gov.uk |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=en |date=26 May 2021}}</ref> and the Job Bulman, a branch of [[Wetherspoons]] located in the former 1920s post office building on St Nicholas Avenue,<ref>{{cite web |title=Gosforth Post Office |url=http://britishpostofficearchitects.weebly.com/gosforth.html |website=British Post Office Buildings and Their Architects : an Illustrated Guide |access-date=11 May 2024 |language=en}}</ref> and named after the founder of Bulman Village. The County Hotel, towards the southern end of the centre of Gosforth, is the southernmost High Street pub. Former public houses in Gosforth include the Collingwood in Regent Farm, and the Royal George in Brunton Park which closed in June 2009. The Three Mile Inn is located on the historic [[Great North Road (United Kingdom)|Great North Road]].

== Transport, communication and amenities ==

=== Transport ===
[[File:Regent Centre Interchange.JPG|thumb|Regent Centre Interchange|alt=A 1980s multi-storey car park with a large tarmac bus area and light railway station. Two buses can be seen in the station. A red coloured roof is over a section of the bus and metro station and the metro station has its own roof coloured in cadmium yellow.]]
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Gosforth is served by three [[Tyne & Wear Metro]] stations: [[South Gosforth Metro station|South Gosforth]], [[Regent Centre Interchange|Regent Centre]], [[Wansbeck Road Metro station|Wansbeck Road]]. The control centre for the Metro system is located at South Gosforth station, and the main depot and car sheds are nearby. Regent Centre's Transport Interchange also contains a large bus station and multi-storey car park.

In 1902, Gosforth was linked by [[tram]]way to [[Wallsend]], then Newcastle a year later; this tramway has long since been removed as other travel links evolved.<ref name=tim/> The Gosforth Park Light Railway extended the tramlines from the High Street to the gates of Gosforth Park; this service ceased in 1930.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/Siteline.nsf/SMR/A9F6C6CF2FBB9183802576AF003E69D4?opendocument |title=Tyne and Wear HER(4626): Gosforth Park, Tramway/Light Railway – Details |publisher=Site Line |access-date=14 March 2010 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In the late 1850s, prior to horse trams, a resident by the name of Mark Frater established an omnibus service connecting Gosforth and Newcastle.<ref name="parish"/>

In 1864, Gosforth was connected to the Blyth and Tyne Railway.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northumbrian-railways.co.uk/index.php?page=south-gosforth |title=South Gosforth station |publisher=Northumbrian Railways |access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref> In 1905 the [[Ponteland and Darras Hall Branch|Ponteland Railway]] was opened from Gosforth to [[Ponteland]]. Three stations in Gosforth were on this route, South Gosforth (the 1864 station renamed), West Gosforth and Coxlodge.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northumbrian-railways.co.uk/index.php?page=ponteland-branch |title=Ponteland and Darras Hall branch |publisher=Northumbrian Railways |access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref> With the opening of the Metro system in the 1980s the locations of these stations were used for the modern South Gosforth, Regent Centre and Fawdon stations respectively.

In 2009 [[Newcastle City Council]] agreed to £9.6 million worth of plans to revamp roads around Gosforth, including the High Street and the Great North Road. With the proposed improvements there would be up to 13 months of roadworks, starting in 2012. The High Street is to have bus lanes, and other traffic is to be confined to one lane in each direction. The city council aims to get 90% of the funding for the congestion improvements from the [[Department for Transport]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/2009/10/30/gosforth-road-revamp-could-leave-newcastle-in-a-jam-72703-25051469/ |title=Gosforth road revamp could leave Newcastle in a jam |newspaper=The Evening Chronicle |date=30 October 2009 |access-date=8 November 2009}}</ref>

=== Communications ===
[[NE postcode area|NE3]] is the postcode area for Gosforth and [[BT Group|BT]] landlines start with ([[+44 191|0191]]) 213, 217, 223, 226, 236, 255, 279, 284 and 285.

Cable, provided by [[Virgin Media]], does not fully cover Gosforth. For example, it is not available to homes covered by the Wideopen Telephone Exchange in the north of the suburb, or in Garden Village to the east of the Asda superstore, or the Regent Farm area. [[ADSL]] and [[G.992.5|ADSL2+]] are widely available in Gosforth, and [[BT Infinity]] broadband was activated in 2011. Gosforth was a pilot area for the [[G.fast]] DSL technology in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://btplc.com/News/Articles/ShowArticle.cfm?ArticleID=C3CBFDCD-832A-40E4-A31F-04DFD5F84D09 |title=BT CEO sets out ultrafast broadband vision |date=30 January 2015 |publisher=[[BT Group|BT plc]] |access-date=30 January 2015}}</ref> As of 2021, CityFibre has been installing Gigabit broadband in the area.<ref>{{cite web |title=First Newcastle residents enjoy gigabit speeds as CityFibre project progresses |url=https://www.cityfibre.com/news/first-newcastle-residents-enjoy-gigabit-speeds-cityfibre-project-progresses/ |website=CityFibre |accessdate=5 April 2021 |date=26 February 2021}}</ref>

=== Amenities ===
In the late 19th century a volunteer [[fire brigade]] was started in Gosforth,<ref name="parish"/> later in 1894 a [[fire station]] was built on Gosforth High Street and since 1990 Gosforth has been served by Gosforth Community Fire Station, located on Jubilee Road.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.twfire.org/gosforth/ |title=Gosforth Community Fire Station |publisher=Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service |access-date=27 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20100202120043/http://www.twfire.org/gosforth/ |archive-date=2 February 2010  }}</ref> Gosforth's first [[police station]] opened in 1857, with four policemen, due to the [[County and Borough Police Act 1856]] ([[19 & 20 Vict.]] c. 69).<ref name=Welford/> Its last police station, on Hawthorn Road,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/cab2006.nsf/allbykey/84B257BFC771770280257244003A60CB/$FILE/DEVELOPM%20PIR%20minutes.pdf |title=Development Control Committee – Post Implementation Review |publisher=Newcastle City Council |access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref> closed in the 1990s and Gosforth is now served from Etal Lane Police Station.

Gosforth has a number of [[Post Office Ltd|post offices]], however on 1 July 2008 the Post Office announced the next set of post offices which would close; the Gosforth Garden Village branch and a nearby branch in [[Kenton, Newcastle upon Tyne|Kenton]] closed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2008/07/01/post_office_consultation_feature.shtml |title=Post Office consultation |publisher=BBC Tyne News |date=1 July 2008 |access-date=12 October 2008}}</ref> A public meeting was held about the closure of the Garden Village post office on the evening of 28 July. Postal facilities had first been introduced in Gosforth in around 1840.<ref name=Welford/>

Whilst the fire brigade was stationed in Gosforth there was a siren that used to alert motorists and public alike that they would be leaving the hidden entrance. The alert was the original All Clear Siren from [[Second World War]].

An unattended mortuary was situated in what was at one time quite an isolated rural spot to the east of the Three Mile Bridge. This small single-storey red-brick building with green doors was surrounded by trees and a crooked metal fence and was used for people who had died from infectious diseases or had been killed in road traffic accidents. Residents of nearby Burnside Road (built in the late 1950s) would hear ambulances pass down the lane in the middle of the night and see undertakers arrive to collect bodies during the day. This continued into the 1960s. When a housing estate was built in the 1980s, the site of the mortuary was not built on and is currently a small car parking area.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Newcastle+Upon+Tyne+NE3+2DU,+United+Kingdom&aq=0&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.598824,72.861328&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Newcastle+Upon+Tyne,+Tyne+And+Wear+NE3+2DU,+United+Kingdom&ll=55.019781,-1.617742&spn=0.000832,0.003245&t=h&z=19 |title=Site of former mortuary near the Three Mile Bridge – Google Maps |access-date=22 January 2011}}</ref>

[[Sanderson Hospital]], an orthopaedic hospital, operated in Gosforth between 1897 and 2005. In 2021, new houses are being built on the site on Salters Road.

=== Gosforth Library ===
[[File:Gosforth Library 2007.jpg|thumb|The new Gosforth Library|alt=A 2007 two storey library building. The lower floor is brown brick and the upper floor is finished in white square tiles. Above the offset entrance on the left there is a section finished in green. The upper floor has large square windows.]]
Gosforth has a public library which was re-built in 2007. In November 2006, the old Gosforth Library was closed and moved to a nearby temporary location. The single-storey building was subsequently demolished and has been replaced by a new two-storey building. The new Library and Customer Service Centre, costing £2.8 million opened on 17 December 2007. The library was officially opened on 8 February 2008 by [[John Grundy (television presenter)|John Grundy]], a local television presenter; music pupils from the then [[Gosforth High School]] also performed at the opening.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/press.nsf/newsbyid/10D86EE487946033802573E5003BD76E?opendocument |title=John Grundy to open Gosforth Customer Service Centre and Library |publisher=Newcastle City Council |date=4 February 2008 |access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref>

In 2014 the Gosforth Customer Service Centre closed and the space is now occupied by part of Newcastle City Learning.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newcastlecitylearning.co.uk/index.php/venues/24-gosforth-library-learning-centre |title=Gosforth Library and Learning Centre |website=www.newcastlecitylearning.co.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024184104/http://www.newcastlecitylearning.co.uk/index.php/venues/24-gosforth-library-learning-centre |archive-date=24 October 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The new building will also incorporate 'public art' to give the centre an identity and a connection with the local area. The library is also used as a [[polling station]].<ref>{{citation |title=2009 United Kingdom local elections – West Gosforth}}</ref>

=== Gosforth Civic Hall ===
The current civic hall in Gosforth is on Regent Farm Road and was built in the 1970s as a replacement for the old Central Hall on the High Street. A Second World War plaque is located in the hall. As of 2011 the hall was not regularly used and the council were looking at other potential community uses for the building. In 2014 a competitive process to determine the operator of the hall was held. This was won by Liberdade Community Development Trust, and the building is now used as a community theatre.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/gosforth-civic-theatre-14746897709 |title=Gosforth Civic Theatre Events |work=Eventbrite |access-date=4 April 2019}}</ref>

== Education ==
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=== Primary schools ===
* [https://www.stcharlesprimary.uk/ St. Charles' RC Primary School]
* [https://www.stoswaldsnewcastle.co.uk/web St. Oswald's RC Primary School]
* [https://www.wyndham.smartacademies.net/ Wyndham Primary School]

=== First schools ===
* [https://archbishop-runcie.eschools.co.uk Archbishop Runcie CE First School]
* [http://www.archibaldfirstschool.org.uk/ Archibald First School]
* [http://www.gosforthpark.newcastle.sch.uk/ Gosforth Park First School]
* [https://www.grangefirst.co.uk/ Grange First School]
* [https://www.regentfarmfirstschool.co.uk/ Regent Farm First School] <!-- On the electoral ward border with Fawdon -->
* [https://www.sgfs.uk South Gosforth First School]
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=== Middle schools ===
* Gosforth Central Middle School
* [[Gosforth East Middle School]]
* [[Gosforth Junior High Academy]] (formerly Gosforth West Middle School)

=== High schools ===
[[File:Gosforth High School Building.JPG|thumb|Gosforth Academy in 2007|alt=A large group of school buildings. The white building in the background was built in the early 21st century whereas the darker buildings on the left were built in the 1960s or 1970s. In the foreground the front grass field. Since the photo was taken the grass has been replaced by an artificial turf pitch.]]
* [[Gosforth Academy]] (formerly Gosforth High School / Gosforth Grammar School)

=== Independent schools ===
* [[Newcastle School for Boys]]
* [[Westfield School, Newcastle upon Tyne|Westfield School]] (for girls)

=== Sixth form colleges ===
* [[Gosforth Academy Sixth Form College]]

=== Adult education ===
* [[Gosforth Community Education College]]

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== Religious sites ==
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*'''Parish church'''. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas and was built in 1799 to the design of John Dodds, replacing an earlier medieval church building which like many parish churches had been  built on top of a hill. The architect [[John Dobson (architect)|John Dobson]] was responsible for some alterations to the church in 1818–20. The eastern half was added in 1913, to the designs of Hicks and Charlewood. A new vestry was added in 1959, partly as a war memorial, designed by F.W. Harvey. The church's predecessor was mentioned in 1170, when the [[advowson]] changed hands. In 1220 Gosforth was also mentioned, according to Brand's ''History of Newcastle''. The earliest parish register is dated 1697.<ref name="parish">{{cite book |first=George |last=Harbottle |title=Gosforth and Its Parish Church: A Thousand Years of History |year=1980 |isbn=0-907113-00-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gosforthparishchurch.org.uk/|title=St Nicholas Church|website=www.gosforthparishchurch.org.uk}}</ref>
*'''St Charles' (Roman Catholic) '''. The parish of St. Charles' came into being at Coxlodge in 1861. The land on which the church now stands in Gosforth was donated by George Dunn Jnr. in 1896. An iron church was opened on 20 December 1896. It measured 25½ yards by 10 yards. Building of the current church began with the blessing and laying of a foundation stone by the Right Rev. Richard Collins, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, on 14 August 1910, and the new church was dedicated in 1911. The solemn opening was a Pontifical High Mass celebrated by Bishop Collins on 3 December 1911. In 2003, work commenced on the construction of a new parish centre on the land adjacent to the church on the north side, formerly occupied by the original St. Charles' Primary School, and this was officially opened in September 2004 by Canon Bob Spence.<ref name=StCharlesHistory>{{cite web  | title = History and Architecture of St.Charles' Church, Gosforth  | url = http://www.st.charles.freeuk.com/history.htm  | access-date = 12 June 2015  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150624143223/http://www.st.charles.freeuk.com/history.htm  | archive-date = 24 June 2015  | url-status = dead  }}</ref>
*'''[[All Saints' Church, Gosforth|All Saints' Church]]''', West Avenue. The church was designed by the Diocesan Architect, Mr. Robert J. Johnson. Building work at the church commenced in 1855, and the prominent west tower was added in 1896. All Saints' Church was consecrated on 2 October 1887 and is a fine example of Gothic Revival architecture. The tower of the church houses ten bells and it is surmounted by a battlement and flagstaff.<ref name=AllSaintsHistory>{{cite web | title = History of All Saints' Church, Gosforth | url = http://www.allsaints-gosforth.org.uk/#!all-saints-history/c20vu | access-date = 15 June 2015}}</ref>
*'''Trinity Church'''. This church was formed from an amalgamation of three non-conformist chapels on the west side of Gosforth High Street. The building was formerly known as West Avenue Methodist Church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://trinitygosforth.org.uk/|title=Trinity Gosforth|website=trinitygosforth.org.uk}}</ref>
[[File:Trinity Church, Gosforth.jpg|thumb|Trinity Church]]
*'''Gosforth Presbyterian Church'''. This church has been amalgamated into Trinity Church. The premises were occupied by a [[Loch Fyne Restaurants|Loch Fyne restaurant]] which closed in July 2018; planning permission was granted for it to re-open as a bar, and it now trades under the name Barluga.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/licence-change-spark-suggestions-loch-14856421|title=Licence change sparks suggestions that Loch Fyne in Gosforth could become a Greene King pub|first=Coreena|last=Ford|date=2 July 2018|work=chroniclelive.co.uk}}</ref>
*'''Woodbine Road Primitive Methodist'''. This church has been amalgamated into Trinity Church. The premises are now occupied by the Community Foundation, having previously been used by the [[Northern Rock Foundation]].
*'''South Gosforth Methodist Church''' was on Freeman Road near the [[Freeman Hospital]]. It is now Trinity Christian Community Centre, administered by Trinity Church, Gosforth.
*'''Regent Chapel'''. In 1938 a group of Christian families living in the Gosforth area felt the need for a Bible-based church for weekly services. The church was able to rent premises above the Co-operative Society on the Great North Road in Gosforth, and the new church began to meet there and take shape. In 1960, the present site in Regent Farm Road became available and with some imaginative planning a new building which cost £7,500 was built on the site.<ref name=RegentHistory>{{cite web | title = Regent Chapel – Our History | url = https://www.regentchapel.co.uk/our-history | access-date = 24 June 2015}}</ref>
*'''United Hebrew Congregation Synagogue'''. The synagogue on Graham Park Road was in use from 1986 to 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twarchives.org.uk/about-us/lahav-jewish-heritage-project|title = Lahav Jewish Heritage Project &#124; Tyne & Wear Archives}}</ref>

== Notable people ==
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=== Born in Gosforth ===
* [[Donna Air]] – actress and television presenter.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0300entertainment/0600theatre/2001/12/20/stars-happy-on-home-ground-50081-11492004/ |title=Stars happy on home ground |work=icNewcsatle |date=20 December 2001 |access-date=11 April 2008}}</ref>
* [[Michael Chopra]] – footballer for [[Blackpool F.C.]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/display.var.2189162.0.chopra_keeping_head_down_ahead_of_derby.php |title=Chopra keeping head down ahead of derby |newspaper=The Northern Echo |date=11 April 2008 |access-date=11 April 2008}}</ref>
* [[Robbie Elliott]] – retired footballer, current strength coach for [[United States U-20 men's football team]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.journallive.co.uk/2003/03/31/footballer-s-wife-is-living-the-dream-50081-12792829/ |title=Footballer's wife is living the dream |publisher=The Journal |date=31 March 2003 |access-date=11 April 2008}}</ref>
* [[Anna Gilthorpe]] – actress.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/arts-news/2010/03/09/teen-dream-gives-anna-a-starring-role-61634-25990360/ |title=Teen dream gives Anna a starring role |publisher=The Journal |date=9 March 2010 |access-date=13 March 2010 |archive-date=7 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307114648/http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/arts-news/2010/03/09/teen-dream-gives-anna-a-starring-role-61634-25990360/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Wilfred Josephs]] – composer.<ref name=fame/>
* [[Joan B. Lee]] – actress and model, wife of [[Stan Lee]].<ref name="chronicle">{{cite news|url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/comic-book-legend-stan-lee-1406071|title=Comic book legend Stan Lee inspired by Newcastle-born wife|date=23 February 2013|newspaper=Chronicle Live|access-date=7 July 2017}}</ref> 
* [[Angela Milner]] - Palaeontologist<ref>{{cite news |title=Angela Milner obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/26/angela-milner-obituary |access-date=31 October 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=26 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Ben Price]] – actor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cafod.org.uk/news/going-for-gold-2006-10-02 |title=Going for gold at the Great North Run |publisher=Cafod |date=2 October 2006 |access-date=11 April 2008}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>
* [[Alan Shearer]] – retired international footballer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sportingo.com/football/a7507_newcastle-blackburn-legend-alan-shearer-simply-best |title=Newcastle and Blackburn legend Alan Shearer – simply the best |publisher=SportIngo |date=13 March 2008 |access-date=11 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406234910/http://www.sportingo.com/football/a7507_newcastle-blackburn-legend-alan-shearer-simply-best |archive-date=6 April 2008  }}</ref>
*[[Scotty T]] - Television Personality
*[[Tod Slaughter]]- Actor and Theatre Manager
*[[Grigor McClelland|Professor W. Grigor McClelland]] - owner of [[Laws Stores]], academic and social activist<ref name=durhamuni>{{cite periodical|url=https://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?query=Grigor&docId=bookreader%2FDU_Gazettes%2FDUGazette1984-5%2FDUGazette19845METS.xml&hit.rank=1#page/2/mode/2up|title=Honorary Degrees|periodical=Durham University Gazette 1984/85|date=1985|volume=III (combined series)|page=62}}</ref>

=== Residents of Gosforth ===
* [[Richard Adams (Traidcraft)|Richard Adams]] – fair-trade businessman – lived in Gosforth.<!-- Ref states as of 2005 --><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/1115378986 |title=Honours for 'inspirational achievement' |publisher=Newcastle University |date=6 May 2005 |access-date=6 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100901124522/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/1115378986 |archive-date=1 September 2010  }}</ref>
* [[Jonathan Edwards (triple jumper)|Jonathan Edwards]] – triple jump world record holder.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/12/nedwards12.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070214073957/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/12/nedwards12.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 February 2007 |title=Olympian Jonathan Edwards has 'crisis of faith' |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=12 February 2007 |access-date=11 April 2008 | location=London | first=Tom | last=Knight}}</ref>
* [[John Grundy (television presenter)|John Grundy]] – television presenter, teacher and author.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/presenter-and-author-john-grundy-4411839 |title=Presenter and author John Grundy |publisher=The Journal |date=25 June 2013 |access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref>
* [[Tony Harrison]] – poet.<ref>{{cite web|author=Maya Jaggi |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/mar/31/poetry.tonyharrison |title=Interview: Tony Harrison |work=The Guardian |date=31 March 2007  |access-date=4 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Rowland Hodge]] – shipbuilder (lived at Coxlodge Hall).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/whodoyouthinkyouare/new-stories/jodie-kidd/how-we-did-it_1.shtml |title=Jodie Kidd – How We Did It – ''Who Do You Think You Are'' |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref>
* [[David Knopfler]] – guitarist in [[Dire Straits]], moved to Gosforth as a child, brother of Mark.
* [[Mark Knopfler]] – guitarist and vocalist in [[Dire Straits]], moved to Gosforth as a child.<ref name=fame>{{cite web|url=http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/wwwfileroot/localstudies/factsheets/Factsheet2People.pdf |title=Famous people with North East Connections |publisher=[[Newcastle City Council]] |date=September 2004 |access-date=11 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528035519/http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/wwwfileroot/localstudies/factsheets/Factsheet2People.pdf |archive-date=28 May 2008 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>
* [[Andrew Leslie (shipbuilder)|Andrew Leslie]] – shipbuilder (lived at Coxlodge Hall).<ref name=coast>{{cite web|url=http://www.northumbrian-coast.co.uk/newcastle.htm |title=Newcastle upon Tyne |publisher=northumbrian-coast.co.uk |access-date=4 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726194938/http://www.northumbrian-coast.co.uk/newcastle.htm |archive-date=26 July 2008  }}</ref>
* Sally Morton – [[Tyne Tees Television]] announcer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2009/01/50-years-of-entertainment.html |title=50 years of entertainment |work=The Evening Chronicle |date=17 January 2009 |access-date=17 January 2009}}</ref>
* [[Neil Tennant]] – musician, and one half of the [[Pet Shop Boys]]. The Tennants moved from [[North Shields]] to Gosforth when Tennant was young.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2009/01/22/pet-shop-boys-singer-mourns-loss-of-father-61634-22749548/ |title=Pet Shop Boys singer mourns loss of father |work=The Journal |date=22 January 2009 |access-date=22 January 2009 |archive-date=7 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907124450/http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2009/01/22/pet-shop-boys-singer-mourns-loss-of-father-61634-22749548/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Nolberto Solano]] – Former Newcastle United footballer.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}
* [[Olga and Betty Turnbull]], child entertainers of the 1930s who performed for royalty.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

== Listed buildings ==
There are a number of [[listed building|buildings with listed status]] in Gosforth:<ref name="conservation"/>
* The Stables, The Drive (Grade II)
* The Lodge, 2 The Drive (Grade II)
* Burnstead, Broadway East (Grade II)
* All Saints' Church, West Avenue (Grade II)
* West Avenue Methodist Church (now Trinity Church) (Grade II)
* The County Inn, High Street (Grade II)
* 1–2 Roseworth Terrace (Grade II)
* 32–36 and 38–52 High Street (Grade II)
* 7–21 and 23–33 The Grove (Grade II)
* 39–73 Graham Park Road flats (Grade II)
* The Queen Victoria, High Street (Grade II)
* The Gosforth Hotel, High Street (Grade II)
* 31–49 Moor End, Moor Crescent (Grade II)
* Yarm House, Roseworth Crescent (Grade II)
* Lanesborough Court (formally St Nicholas’ hospital) (Grade II)
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== Nearest places ==
* [[Jesmond]]
* [[Longbenton]]
* [[Kingston Park]]
* [[Kenton, Newcastle upon Tyne|Kenton]]
* [[Gosforth Park]]
* [[Newcastle Great Park|Great Park]]
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== Nearest metro stations ==
[[File:South Gosforth Metro Station (geograph 4744952).jpg|thumb|South Gosforth Metro station, and its 1864 bridge on the right. The Metro system is run from the control building on the left. |alt=A station with two platforms and tracks. In the foreground is a 19th-century pedestrian bridge.]]
* [[South Gosforth Metro station]]
* [[Regent Centre Interchange|Regent Centre Metro station]]
* [[Ilford Road Metro station]]
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== Photo gallery ==
{{Gallery
| title  = Gosforth High Street
| width  = 160
| height = 140
|File:Gosforth High Street 1.jpg|alt1=A terrace of stone fronted buildings, with a curved corner building fronted in white, from the mid-late 19th century|North end of High Street
|File:Gosforth High Street 2.jpg|alt2=A 19th-century public house building and shops behind a road and pavement|Gosforth Hotel and shops on Gosforth High Street
|File:Gosforth High Street 3.jpg|alt3=A church building on the left and shopping centre on the right. In the middle a busy road.|High Street taken from in between the two churches
|File:Gosforth High Street 4.jpg|alt4=A busy road with shops on both sides|Southern approach to High Street
|File:Gosforth Shopping Post.jpg|alt5=The side entrance of a 1970s brown shopping centre. A post office and charity shop can be seen.|Side of Gosforth Shopping Centre
|File:Job Bulman.jpg|alt6=A two-storey brick public house, formerly used as a post office|Job Bulman pub, a former [[post office]] building
}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061021232924/http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/wardinfoEASTGOSFORTH Ward Info: East Gosforth] at [[Newcastle City Council]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070823035358/http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/wardinfowestgosforth Ward Info: West Gosforth] at [[Newcastle City Council]]
* [http://www.gosforthlife.co.uk/ Gosforth Life] – Photographs from Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne
* {{cite web |url=http://www.genuki.bpears.org.uk/NBL/Gosforth/index.html |title=Gosforth |publisher=GENUKI |access-date=27 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108094136/http://www.genuki.bpears.org.uk/NBL/Gosforth/index.html |archive-date=8 January 2009  }}
* [http://newcastleareas.wordpress.com/gosforth/ Kay's Geography: Gosforth page]

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