Where is this?

Apex was first to name the Tyne, which has a north and south fork. You all did very well, adding the missing pieces as you went. The Tyne River, when it was straightened had some islands removed. The straithes were partially destroyed by fire a few years ago but were previously used for loading coal onto ships. Solway and the Tyne region are connected by Hadrian's wall as you all knew. I still don't get the parking angle. Maybe someone will fill me in on that.

 

hmm... sorry Hoyt, I expect I'm being dense. Newcastle - Missing islands? No man? you might have to spell it out, I'm afraid sorry!

 

Read the last paragraph.

River Tyne
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Coordinates: 55°0′37″N 1°25′8″W / 55.01028°N 1.41889°W / 55.01028; -1.41889River Tyne
River

The pedestrian/cyclist's Gateshead Millennium Bridge and Tyne Bridge for traffic between Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne
Country United Kingdom
Part England


Primary source South Tyne
- location Alston Moor
Secondary source North Tyne
- location Deadwater Fell, Kielder, Northumberland
Mouth Tynemouth
- location South Shields
- coordinates 55°0′37″N 1°25′8″W / 55.01028°N 1.41889°W / 55.01028; -1.41889

Length 100 km (62 mi)
Basin 2,145 km2 (828 sq mi)


The River Tyne is a river in northeast England in central Great Britain. It is formed by the confluence of two rivers: the North Tyne and the South Tyne. These two rivers converge at Warden Rock near Hexham in Northumberland at a place dubbed 'The Meeting of the Waters'.

The North Tyne rises on the Scottish border, north of Kielder Water. It flows through Kielder Forest, and passes through the village of Bellingham before reaching Hexham.

The South Tyne rises on Alston Moor, Cumbria and flows through the towns of Haltwhistle and Haydon Bridge, in a valley often called the Tyne Gap. Hadrian's Wall lies to the North of the Tyne Gap. Coincidentally the source of the South Tyne is very close to the sources of the other two great rivers of the industrial north east namely the Tees and the Wear. The South Tyne Valley falls within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) - the second largest of the 40 AONBs in England and Wales.

The combined Tyne flows from Hexham, the area where the rivers now thriving barbel stocks were first introduced in the mid 1980's, through Corbridge in Northumberland. It enters the county of Tyne and Wear between Clara Vale (in the Borough of Gateshead on the South bank) and Tyne Riverside Country Park (in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne on the North bank) and continues to divide Newcastle and Gateshead for 13 miles (21 km), in the course of which it is spanned by 10 bridges. To the East of Gateshead and Newcastle, the Tyne divides Hebburn and Jarrow on the South bank from Walker and Wallsend on the North bank. Jarrow and Wallsend are linked underneath the river by the Tyne Tunnel. Finally it flows between South Shields and North Shields into the North Sea. As it passes through the Tyneside conurbation, the river marks the historic border between County Durham (to the south) and Northumberland (to the north).

With its proximity to surrounding coalfields, the Tyne was a major route for the export of coal from the 13th century until the decline of the coal mining industry in North East England in the second half of the 20th century. The largest coal staithes were located at Dunston in Gateshead, Hebburn and Tyne Dock, South Shields. The dramatic wooden staithes (a structure for loading coal onto ships) at Dunston, built in 1890, have been preserved, although they were partially destroyed by fire in 2006.[1] And to this day in 2008 Tyne Dock, South Shields is still involved with coal, importing 2 million tonnes of shipments a year.

The lower reaches of the Tyne were, in the late 19th and early 20th century, one of the world's most important centres of shipbuilding, and there are still shipyards in South Shields and Hebburn to the south of the river.

To support the shipbuilding and export industries of Tyneside, the lower reaches of the river were extensively remodelled during the second half of the 19th century, with islands removed and meanders in the river straightened.

 

Thanks. I'm experiencing some lag in posts appearing - hence the occasional non sequitur.

Thanks for a great puzzle!

 

No no lazy chap! Now it is your turn to make a better one!!!

 

phssst! OKAAAY! a moment...

 

OK - no pics at first, but maybe to follow as clues, depending on how you go on

Just down the coast from a punk resort, up the road from a big cheese, named after a colourful historical figure who was well loved in our last answer, this small port is known for a fearsomely rough bar, and links Crockett and Tubbs with cruelty to insects.

 

and I'm going to bed now. have fun!

 

Wonderland? Lovely Alice? Too early for this kind of riddles.....


Cheers!

 

time for a picture?...

 

It was his dog taking a wiz on a tree caught in the street view.

At first glance the white above the dog made me think it was a mime. But thats's profiling, and profiling is wrong. =)

 

OK so Cheddar village is within an area known as Somerset. This may be the big cheese referred to in the clue.

 

Or it may be Waterloo cheese, first produced on the estate of the Duke of Wellington, famous for kicking Napoleon's a$$.

 

Wellington is also within the Somerset border.

 

Port of Bristol is the most famous in the region.