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Estate as seen through the fencing of Montagu Primary School at its entrance on Houghton Avenue.
©Mark Smiles
On the northernmost fringe of Nun's Moor Golf Course lies this less proserous housing estate
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Dist:0.3km north<br/>
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Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©Anthony Foster
Dist:0.5km north<br/>
©Anthony Foster
Dist:0.6km east<br/>
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Dist:0.8km west<br/>The building was originally Montague Baths, opened in the early Sixties. It was converted into a leisure centre during the mid Eighthies.
©Anthony Foster
Dist:0.9km southeast<br/>These luxury flats built in the 1960's have fine views over Nuns Moor and Town Moor, Newcastle.
©Chris Bell
Dist:0.9km west<br/>Unusual housing at Kenton Bar
©C G Burke
Dist:1.0km northeast<br/>Methodist church opposite the Public House known as the Trap.
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Dist:1.0km northeast<br/>This public house used to be called the Coxlodge, but local residents always called it the trap and so the brewery eventually gave in to local tradition and renamed it. The name comes from the fact that the pitmen and quarry men who lived locally, (before it became so built up) used to race whippets around here and so the pub was called the trap.
©Newbiggin Hall Scouts
Dist:1.0km east<br/>Sections of this 19th Century mental hospital have been converted into elegant apartments.
©Chris Bell
Dist:1.0km south<br/>Inside Cowgate Roundabout.
©Mark Smiles
Dist:1.0km south<br/>At the end of Kingsway this track emerges to carry you to Cowgate.
©Mark Smiles
Dist:1.0km south<br/>A ramshackle aggregation of shops, drive-thrus, offices and residences marks the suburb of Cowgate.
©Mark Smiles

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