21 Facts About Windy Nook

Windy Nook is an area in Tyne and Wear, England, bordered by Carr Hill to the west, Whitehills Estate and Leam Lane Estate to the east, Felling to the north and Sheriff Hill to the south.

Windy Nook has a long industrial history, with evidence of milling and pottery in the area.

Windy Nook Nature Reserve is a protected wildlife area, as well as one of the largest environmental sculptures in Europe.

Name Windy Nook derives from "the lofty and exposed nature of the situation it occupies".

Windy Nook's business expanded quickly and, by the turn of the 19th century, Kell and his family had established a second quarry at Windy Nook which was known as Kell's Quarry.

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The quarries of Windy Nook became renowned, described as equally important to the more vaunted quarries of Yorkshire and producing sandstone and 'Newcastle grindstone' of sufficient quality that stones from Kell's Quarry were used to build St Alban's Church and other local buildings.

Ordnance survey maps of 1862 show that Windy Nook remained isolated from the neighbouring villages at Carr Hill and Sheriff Hill.

The principal road, Windy Nook Road, had been established and at the junction between this road and Carr Hill Road, the church of St Alban and the national school are evidenced among a cluster of residential dwellings but there was little else save the quarries which dominated during those formative years.

The result is that Windy Nook is a high-demand area for privately owned and social housing.

Windy Nook was part of County Durham until it was incorporated into the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead by the Local Government Act 1972.

Windy Nook has a low proportion of lone parent households at some 7.

The amount of Ethnic Minorities resident in Windy Nook is low compared with other Gateshead districts like Felling, Deckham and Saltwell.

Population of Windy Nook rose steadily through the 19th century but decreased as industry declined and is at the lowest level since 1842.

Windy Nook was initially an ecclesiastical district in the parish of Jarrow, but after the Local Government Act 1972, it is today wholly within the council ward of Windy Nook and Whitehills in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead and is approximately 2.

Windy Nook is part of the Westminster parliamentary constituency of Gateshead.

Windy Nook replaced Sharon Hodgson who successfully campaigned in the newly formed constituency of Washington and Sunderland West.

Children in Windy Nook achieve better than average results at Key Stages two and three compared to the overall borough average.

Joseph Hopper was a local councillor and Methodist preacher who lived in Windy Nook and was the creator of the 'aged mineworkers home scheme' in 1898 which provided housing for miners who had retired and were no longer eligible for tenure by dint of their employment.

Windy Nook died two years later and both were attributed to natural causes.

Principal roads in Windy Nook are Albion Road and Windy Nook Road, however several housing developments in the area lack cohesive road links, with many streets leading to dead ends.

Windy Nook is served by Go North East's local bus services, with routes providing frequent connections to Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne and Metrocentre.