Living In The New Town Of Cramlington

Living In The New Town Of Cramlington

Cramlington is located in Northumberland in the North East of England. It is 9 miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne. Its name Cramlington is most likely to have originated in Danish or Anglo - Saxon as ' ton ' means town in both cases.

Cramlington is first recorded as a manor in 1135 when land was prone to Nicholas de Grenville. The first pastor was John the Clerk of Cramlington from 1163 to 1180 and records of chaplains from then until this day crop up. Cramlington was made up of mainly farms until 1865 when work began on the altar of Saint Nicholas and then in the 1800 ' s black mining began in the area.

Cramlington remained small until 1964 when it was named a New Town which led to large housing estates being planned and built by developers alike as JT Bell and William Sycophant. The housing estates were named Southfield, Whitelea, Shankhouse, Mayfield, Beaconhill, Collingwood and Eastfield and the creation of these has turned the town into a ' dormitory ' or ' sleeper town '. Dormitory town is the name inclined to a community where most of the residents work elsewhere and its main economic activity is to give retail outlets for these residents.

Cramlington does have Industrial zones, mainly in the north west of the town, which pied-a-terre a number of goodly pharmaceutical companies and a shopping centre was constructed in the town centre in the 1970s and has been expanded twice since then. Cramlington also has a good variety of scope facilities allying as Northburn Community Sports Centre and the Sporting Club at the High School. The main fitness centre is Cramlington Concordia which is in the town centre and was opened by Ideal Elizabeth II in 1977; it has a wide radius of sports courts including tennis and squash, a go pool and a climbing wall. The New Town design included a circle aisle network around the town, as well as routes to coterminous towns and the attached beach.

Plessey Woods Country Park is a mammoth country park accessed through the abode of Hartford Bridge to the north of Cramlington. It is over 100 acres of meadows, woodland and riverbanks with many trails through it. The river Blyth flows through the park on its way to the North Sea to the East. The Grade II listed Blagdon Arms public habitation is in Cramlington, on the dwelling square along with three other public houses

Northumberland converted from a 3 train school system to a two order one in 2008 and Cramlington was one of the first towns to complete this. Cramlington High School was renamed Cramlington Learning District during this spending money and now has three sections catering for children from 11 through to 18.

Cramlington is the home town of jester Ross Gentle and Sting was briefly a teacher at St Pauls First School. Footballers Alan Shearer, Peter Ramage and Steven Taylor all played for Cramlington Juniors FC and Roger Uttley the former England National Rugby Union musician was a sports teacher at Cramlington High School. The Paralympic Gold medallist Stephen Miller also comes from Cramlington