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North East England

January 18, 2023

For similar areas, see Northumbria (modern) and North East Combined Authority.

North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes.[a] The region has three current administrative levels below the region level in the region; combined authority, unitary authority or metropolitan district and civil parishes. They are also multiple divisions without administrative functions; ceremonial county, emergency services (fire-and-rescue and police), built-up areas and historic county. The most populous places in the region are Newcastle upon Tyne (city), Middlesbrough, Sunderland (city), Gateshead, Darlington and Hartlepool. Durham also has city status.

North East England
Region
Shown within England
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Constituent countryEngland
Combined authorities
Ceremonial counties
Districts
Area
 • Total3,317 sq mi (8,592 km2)
 • Rank8th
Population
 (2018)[1]
 • Total2,657,909
 • Rank9th
 • Density800/sq mi (310/km2)
GVA
 • Per capita£15,688 (9th)
ITL codeTLC
ONS codeE1200001
MPsLabour: 19
Conservative: 10
Police3 Territorial Police Forces
AmbulanceNorth East Ambulance Service
Fire and Rescue4 Fire and Rescue Services

History

 
12th-century wall-painting of St Cuthbert in Durham Cathedral

The region's historic importance is displayed by Northumberland's ancient castles, the two World Heritage Sites of Durham Cathedral and Durham Castle,[2] and Hadrian's Wall,[3] one of the frontiers of the Roman Empire. In fact, Roman archaeology can be found widely across the region and a special exhibition based around the Roman Fort of Segedunum at Wallsend[4] and the other forts along Hadrian's Wall are complemented by the numerous artifacts that are displayed in the Great North Museum Hancock[5] in Newcastle. St. Peter's Church in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland and St. Pauls in Jarrow also hold significant historical value and have a joint bid to become a World Heritage Site.[citation needed]

The area has a strong religious past, as can be seen in works such as the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.[6] The works of Cuthbert (634–687 AD), Bede (673–735 AD) and Hilda of Whitby (614–680 AD) were hugely influential in the early church, and are still venerated by some today.[7][8] These saints are usually associated with the monasteries on the island of Lindisfarne, Wearmouth-Jarrow, and the Abbey at Whitby, though they are also associated with many other religious sites in the region. Bede is regarded as the greatest Anglo-Saxon scholar. He worked at the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow, translating some forty books on all areas of knowledge, including nature, history, astronomy, poetry and theological matters such as the lives of the saints. His best known work is "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People".[9] One of the most famous pieces of art and literature created in the region is the Lindisfarne Gospels, thought to be the work of a monk named Eadfrith, who became Bishop of Lindisfarne in 698. This body of work is thought to have been created in honour of Cuthbert, around 710–720.[10]

In 793, the Vikings arrived on the shores of north-east England with a raiding party from Norway who attacked the monastic settlement on Lindisfarne.[11] The monks fled or were slaughtered, and Bishop Higbald sought refuge on the mainland. A chronicler recorded: "On the 8th June, the harrying of the heathen miserably destroyed God's church by rapine and slaughter." There were three hundred years of Viking raids, battles and settlement until William the Conqueror defeated King Harold at Hastings in 1066.[12] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle notes the change from raiding to settlement when it records that in 876 the Vikings "Shared out the land of the Northumbrians and they proceeded to plough and support themselves"[13]

The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria extended from the Scottish borders (then Pictish borders) at the Firth of Forth to the north, and to the south of York, its capital, down to the Humber. The last independent Northumbrian king from 947–8 was Eric Bloodaxe, who died at the Battle of Stainmore, Westmorland, in 954. After Eric Bloodaxe's death, all England was ruled by Eadred, the grandson of Alfred the Great; and so began the machinery of national government.[14] Today the Viking legacy can still be found in the language and place names of north-east England and in the DNA of its people.[15] The name Newcastle comes from the castle built shortly after the conquest in 1080 by Robert Curthose, William the Conqueror's eldest son.[citation needed]

Local government

The region comprises the following local authorities:

The region was created in 1994 and was originally defined as the metropolitan boroughs of Newcastle upon Tyne; Gateshead; North Tyneside; South Tyneside and City of Sunderland, together with the ceremonial counties of Northumberland, County Durham and Cleveland. A reform of local government abolished Cleveland and splitting the former area between County Durham and North Yorkshire. However, the former Cleveland area has a series of local authorities, making the technical relocation of places in the region purely ceremonial.

Elections

The North East has a strong tendency to vote Labour. In the 2015 election, 47% of the electorate voted Labour, while 25% voted Conservative, 17% UKIP, 6% Liberal Democrat and 4% Green. At the 2009 European election, Labour got 25% of the region's vote, the Conservatives 20%, the Liberal Democrats 18%, and UK Independence Party 15%.[16] However, in recent years, the North East has seen a significant swing away from Labour. In the 2019 election, many constituencies were targeted by the Conservatives and their representation increased to 10 MPs. The region wide vote shares were 43% for Labour and 38% for the Conservatives, with the Brexit Party a distant third on 8%.

Numbers of MPs returned per party (total 29)
Affiliation 2010-15 2015-17 2017-19 2019-present
Conservative Party 2 3 3 10
Labour Party 25 26 26 19
Liberal Democrat UK 2 0 0 0

2004 regional assembly referendum

In November 2004, a referendum on whether a directly elected regional assembly should be set up for North East England resulted in a decisive "no" vote. The number of people who voted against the plans was 696,519 (78%), while 197,310 (22%) voted in favour. John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister at the time, admitted that his plans for regional devolution had suffered an "emphatic defeat" to the no campaign, spearheaded by Dominic Cummings. Bernard Jenkin, the Conservative spokesman for the regions, said the vote would mean the end of plans for a North East Assembly. He told the BBC: "The whole idea of regional government has been blown out of the water by this vote".[17]

Combined authorities

The former Association of North East Councils was based in Newcastle upon Tyne, and the preceding North East Assembly was based in Gateshead until its dissolution in 2009. Local enterprise partnerships were established, these later became combined authorities. The North East Combined Authority was established in 2014 and covered much of the region excluding Tees Valley. North of Tyne authorities later split off, leaving authorities south of the River Tyne.

The Tees Valley boroughs (Darlington, Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar & Cleveland, and Middlesbrough) established the Tees Valley Combined Authority in 2016.

Geography

Geographic features
 
Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island
 
High Force, Teesdale
 
Cheviot Hills
 
Whitley Bay

The region is generally hilly and sparsely populated in the North and West, and urban and arable in the East and South. The highest point in the region is The Cheviot, in the Cheviot Hills, at 815 metres (2,674 ft).

The region contains the urban centres of Tyneside, Wearside, and Teesside and is noted for the rich natural beauty of its coastline, Northumberland National Park, and the section of the Pennines that includes Teesdale and Weardale.

Climate

North East England has a Marine west coast climate (generally found along the west coast of middle latitude continents) with narrower temperature ranges than the south of England and sufficient precipitation in all months. Summers and winters are mild rather than extremely hot or cold, due to the strong maritime influence of the North Atlantic Current of the Gulf Stream. The Met Office operates several weather stations in the region[18] and are able to show the regional variations in temperature and its relation to the distance from the North Sea. The warmest summers in the region are found in Stockton-on-Tees and the Middlesbrough area, with a 1981-2010 July average high of 20.4 °C (68.7 °F).[19] Precipitation is often low by English standards, in spite of the low levels of sunshine, with Stockton-on-Tees averaging only 574.2 millimetres (22.61 in) annually, and with the seaside town of Tynemouth (despite its slightly sunnier climate) recording 597.2 millimetres (23.51 in) annually.[20] The summers on the northern coastlines are significantly cooler than in the southern and central inland areas: Tynemouth is only just above 18 °C (64 °F) in July. Further inland, frosts during winter are more common, due to the higher elevations and distance from the sea.

Biodiversity

The region has a diverse landscape that includes maritime cliffs and extensive moorland that contains a number of rare species of flora and fauna. Of particular importance are the saltmarshes of Lindisfarne, the Tees Estuary, the heaths, bogs and traditional upland hay meadows of the North Pennines, and the Arctic-alpine flora of Upper Teesdale.

The beauty of the Northumbrian coastline has led to its designation as an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) stretching 100 miles from Berwick-Upon-Tweed to the River Coquet estuary.[21] Among the 290 bird species identified on the Farne Islands, is the rare seabird the roseate tern. One of the foremost bird sanctuaries and observatory for migratory and wading birds in the UK is now operated at "Saltholme" which is part of a wider site of special scientific interest called Seal Sands. The Saltholme reserve is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). This project has been pronounced as one of the best places to view birds by Bill Oddie, the celebrity bird watcher and former host of the BBC's Spring Watch Programme. In December 2012 he also presented the project with a prize as the UK's favorite National Lottery funded project.[22] The seal colony at Seal Sands on the mouth of the River Tees is thriving and stands at more than 60 harbour seals and this is the only breeding colony of this species on the northeast coast.[23] "Rainton Meadows" is also a recently created bird-watching site.[24] The region is also the English stronghold of black grouse[25] and contains 80–90% of the UK population of yellow marsh saxifrage.[26]

The Magnesian Limestone grasslands of East Durham are a unique habitat not found anywhere else in the world which is particularly important to many species of butterfly and moths.[27]

The Northeast of England also features woodland such as Kielder Forest, the largest man-made forest in Europe.[28] This is located within Northumberland National Park and contains an important habitat for the endangered red squirrel.[29]

Landmarks

Demographics

 
Population pyramid in 2020
 

The North East with Scotland, the South West of England, Wales and Northern Ireland are the British regions to have seen the least immigration in over 50 years.[30] The Northeast of England as a region has the lowest rate of HIV infection in the UK,[31] but has the highest rate of heart attacks among men and of lung cancer among women in England, along with the highest male lung cancer rate in the UK .[32] As of November 2017 the region has the joint highest unemployment rate in the UK at 5.5%[33] and as of April 2013 youth unemployment in the North East is 24.8%, with 51,000 out of work.[34] In 2010 the region had the second highest trade union membership among UK men.[35] Higher education students from the North East are most likely to pick a university in their home region.[36] The Northeast, as part of the "North" demographic region, has the highest proportion of Christians in Great Britain.[37] Last immigration wave before 21st century was in the late 1990s as a result of the government's dispersal policy scheme that broke up refugee communities, asylum seekers in South England, relocating the new arrivals throughout the country. In 2017, most migrants were non-EU born, and about 60.000 EU-born.[38] The North East has the smallest population of all English regions.

Ethnicity

Ethnic group 1991[39] 2001[40] 2011[41] 2021[42]
Number % Number % Number % Number %
White: Total 2,507,133 98.6% 2,455,416 97.61% 2,475,567 95.32% 2,462,720 93.1%
White: British 2,425,592 96.42% 2,431,423 93.62% 2,397,557 90.6%
White: Irish 8,682 8,035 8,384 0.3%
White: Irish Traveller/Gypsy - - 1,684 2,621 0.1%
White: Roma 2,375 0.1%
White: Other 21,142 34,425 51,783 2.0%
Asian or Asian British: Total 27,626 1.1% 39,630 1.57% 74,599 2.87% 98,046 3.6%
Asian or Asian British: Indian 7470 10,156 15,817 22,021 0.8%
Asian or Asian British: Pakistani 9257 14,074 19,831 27,290 1.0%
Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi 3416 6,167 10,972 16,355 0.6%
Asian or Asian British: Chinese 4519 6,048 14,284 14,442 0.5%
Asian or Asian British: Asian Other 2964 3,185 13,695 17,938 0.7%
Black or Black British: Total 4,057 0.2% 3,953 0.15% 13,220 0.5% 26,635 1%
Black or Black British: African 1428 2,597 10,982 22,066 0.8%
Black or Black British: Caribbean 1013 927 1,193 1,704 0.1%
Black or Black British: Other 1616 429 1,045 2,865 0.1%
Mixed: Total 12,228 0.48% 22,449 0.86% 33,271 1.2%
Mixed: White and Caribbean 2,783 5,938 5,650 0.2%
Mixed: White and African 1,741 3,549 6,527 0.2%
Mixed: White and Asian 4,733 8,022 12,490 0.5%
Mixed: Other Mixed 2,971 4,940 8,604 0.3%
Other: Total 4753 0.2% 4,215 0.16% 11,051 0.42% 26,342 1%
Other: Arab - - 5,850 10,406 0.4%
Other: Any other ethnic group 4753 0.2% 4,215 0.16% 5,201 15,936 0.6%
Total 2,543,569 100% 2,515,442 100% 2,596,886 100% 2,647,014 100%

Population genetics

North East England, together with Tweeddale, was the ancient British tribal kingdom of Bernicia (Bryneich) and is notable for providing the stable ancestry of its present indigenous population, which has been identified by DNA analysis to be an offshoot of the group "Scotland, Cumbria and the North of Ireland", but not so closely related to the other peoples of the UK.[43][44] In a 2022 study by Joscha Gretzinger et al., the population of North East England was found to be among the groups with the highest amount of Iron Age/Roman period British Isles-related ancestry, being on par with Cornish people in that regard.[45]

Teenage pregnancy

The Office for National Statistics in April 2013 report that the estimated number of conceptions to women aged under 18 in England and Wales in 2011 is the lowest since records began in 1969.[46] Conception statistics include pregnancies that result in either one or more live births or stillbirths or a legal abortion.

A comparison of rates across regions in England shows that the North East had the highest of under 18 conception rates in 2011, with 38.4 per thousand women aged 15–17. The South East had the lowest rate for women aged under 18 in 2011 with 26.1 per thousand women aged 15–17.[46]

Social deprivation

A study into social deprivation was published in 2010 to help the local partners developing a Regional Strategy for the North East better understand the factors influencing deprivation in the region. The study had two main aspects: Firstly to establish if there are different types of deprived neighbourhoods in the Northeast, and if so, how deprived neighbourhoods can be better recognised. Secondly to present a summary of "what works" in tackling deprivation in each of these types of area.[47]

The report discusses the factors influencing deprivation and points out that it is a significant problem for the North East with 34% of the regions Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs) are amongst England's 20% most deprived in the 2007 Indices of Deprivation(these indices have been updated in 2010). It takes many years for areas to become deprived, suggesting that the underlying causes of area-based deprivation are long-term such as:

  • Major changes in the employment base, which has changed the nature and spatial distribution of jobs in the UK and within specific regions and localities.
  • The "residential sorting" effects of the public and private housing markets.

Industrial restructuring has disproportionately affected some communities and groups. In particular:

  • Job losses in manufacturing and coalmining were most severely felt in the north of England, Scotland and Wales – and particular communities within these areas.
  • As a result of the types of jobs that were lost, some demographic groups – particularly older working age males in skilled manual work – were more likely to be affected than others.

The region's most deprived council districts, as measured by the LSOA data[48] before County Durham and Northumberland became unitary authorities in 2007, are in descending order Easington (7th in England), Middlesbrough (9th), Hartlepool (23rd), Wear Valley (33rd), Sunderland (35th), Newcastle upon Tyne (37th), South Tyneside (38th), Wansbeck (46th), Redcar and Cleveland (50th), Gateshead (52nd), Sedgefield (54th), Derwentside (73rd), Blyth Valley (80th), and Stockton on Tees (98th).

The least deprived council districts in 2007 were, in descending order, Tynedale, Castle Morpeth, Teesdale, then Alnwick. Since the April 2009 abolition of these four districts, Northumberland is the least deprived, followed by North Tyneside.

Unemployment is a severe problem in the North East, where many children grow up in households where no adult works. in 2010 Easington had the highest rate in the country, as 40.3% of its households with children had no working adult, followed by Sedgefield with 34%.[citation needed] In 2013 the Office for National Statistics report issued the statements highlighted below[49]

  • Employment rate highest in the South East (74.8%) and lowest in the North East (66.6%).
  • Unemployment rate highest in the North East (10.1%) and lowest in the South West (6.2%).
  • Inactivity rate highest in the North East (25.8%) and lowest in the South East (19.8%).
  • Claimant Count rate highest in the North East (7.2%) and lowest in the South East (2.7%).

In 2020, following George Floyd's murder, it was reported that BAME communities suffered inequalities exacerbated by the poor housing of deprived neighbourhoods.[50]

ONS ITL

In the ONS International Territorial Levels (ITL), North East England is a level-1 ITL region, coded "UKC", which is subdivided as follows:

ITL 1 Code ITL 2 Code ITL 3 Code
North East England UKC Tees Valley and Durham UKC1 Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees UKC11
  South Teesside (Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland) UKC12
Darlington UKC13
Durham UKC14
Northumberland and Tyne and Wear UKC2 Northumberland UKC21
Tyneside (Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside) UKC22
Sunderland UKC23

Economy

The latest statistical report from the Office for National Statistics comparing the North East of England to other regions of the United Kingdom,[51] dated May 2012, states:

  • The North East has the highest value of goods exports relative to the size of its economy, the highest percentage employed in the public sector and lowest gross household income per head of the English regions.
  • The North East's exports of goods, expressed as a percentage of gross value added (GVA), were the highest of all the English regions at 29% in 2010, compared with the UK average of 20%. Over half the region's goods exports were to the EU (55%).[52]
  • A quarter of employed people in the region worked in the public sector in Q4 2011 (24.6%), the highest proportion among the English regions, down from 26.9% in Q4 2009. In 2010, at local authority level the highest shares of public sector employee jobs were to be found in Newcastle upon Tyne and Middlesbrough (both over 33% of all employee jobs).
  • Gross disposable household income (GDHI) of residents in the North East, at £13,300 per head in 2010, was 15% below the UK average and the lowest of the English regions. It ranged from £12,400 in Sunderland to £16,090 in Northumberland.
  • The North East region contributed 3% of the UK's GVA. The region's headline GVA was £41.0 billion in 2010. The latest subregional data (2009) show that Tyneside generated 37% of the region's GVA at £14.6 billion.
  • In 2009 manufacturing industries generated 14% of the region's total GVA, which is the largest industry contribution for the region.
  • Productivity in 2010 (measured by GVA per hour worked) was 88% of the UK rate: one of the lowest of the English regions. Within the region, Northumberland's productivity was the third lowest in England at 75% of the UK rate in 2009.
  • The region's employment rate was the lowest in England at 66.2% for Q4 2011. The latest subregional data for the year ending September 2011 show that North Tyneside had the highest employment rate at 72.6%.
  • The North East had the highest rate of economic inactivity of the English regions, 25% of the population aged 16 to 64 in Q4 2011.

The North East is the most affordable region in the UK. Figures from 2017 indicate it is the UK region with lowest cost of living per household.[53]

Support organisations

Businesses in Northeast England are supported by the North East England Chamber of Commerce.[54] The Northeast Chamber of Commerce (NECC) is based in Durham and has active sub committees working in all sub regions.

To further encourage SMEs in the North East of England to Export, the Northeast Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) has collaborated with the Northeast Chamber of Commerce (NECC) and RTC North Limited to create a jointly owned subsidiary company Go Global Limited to manage the contract they have to deliver the United Kingdom Trade & Investment (UKTI), Government funded, support products and programme for all business sectors in their region. The UKTI business support products, to help grow international trade, are focused on supporting individual SMEs to grow their exports and they also support Trade Missions to new markets.[55]

The Northern Business Forum is an organisation created in the region to share knowledge and best practice between membership based business support organisations in the Northeast of England. The Forum creates a single voice for business when this is needed. This business led forum also links its member organisations to wider business issues, both locally and nationally, through the local and national business membership organisations that are also represented. Members of the forum include NECC, NEPIC, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), Confederation of British Industry (CBI) North East, the Make UK Northern, The Institute of Directors (IOD) and RTC North.

RTC North provide business expertise in specific growth areas such as product innovation, market research, technology transfer, commercialisation, business growth. North East Access to Finance (NEA2F) operates a business growth fund to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMES).

Enterprise zones

Businesses investing in the region are supported by the Local Enterprise Partnerships of Tees Valley (part of the TVCA)[56] and the North East. Both these organisations manage enterprise zones (Invest North East England and Tees Valley Business) to encourage new business investors. There are also several Industry and Business led Cluster bodies in the region to network and engage companies on a sector basis and give local business-to-business advice and supply chain intelligence: the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) (chemicals-polymers-pharmaceuticals-biotech), the Northern Offshore Federation (NOF) (energy and offshore engineering), Service Network (accountants-finance-law firms-HR) and Make UK (defence related engineering), Design Network North (DNN) (design issues for all sectors.)

The Invest North East, was announced by the government in 2011.[57] The zone focuses on technology for low carbon vehicle development, marine offshore and subsea engineering, petrochemicals and renewable energy.[58] At the time of announcement the enterprise zone included two clusters of sites, an Ultra Low Carbon Vehicle zone in Sunderland and a zone on the River Tyne North Bank.[57] The Sunderland cluster is close to the Nissan plant and includes Turbine Business Park. It hosts Gateshead College's Future Technology Centre.[58] The cluster on the Tyne includes the Port of Tyne North Estate, Swan Hunter in North Tyneside, and Neptune Yard in Newcastle.[57] The zone was launched in April 2012.[58] In that year another cluster of sites, composing the Blyth Estuary Renewable Energy Zone at Port of Blyth, was added to the zone.[59] The enterprise zone contains ten sites over the three clusters, covering 115 hectares (280 acres) in total.[60]

Industrial heritage

After more than 2,000 years of industrial activity as a result of abundant minerals such as salt and coal,[61][62] the chemical industry of the Northeast England is today spread across the whole of the region,[63] with pharmaceuticals being primarily produced in the north of the region, speciality and fine chemicals spread across the middle of the region and commodity chemicals and petrochemicals on Teesside.

These companies are members of the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC). The early chemical industry in this region, however, was primarily Tyneside based and associated with the manufacture of soap and glass. The most important chemical activity in the 18th and 19th centuries was the manufacture of alkali to make soap, which was when mixed with lime and sand and used to make glass.[64] The effects of the industrial revolution could be seen through an economy dominated by iron and steel, coal mining and shipbuilding. Rationalisation of chemical firms in 1891 left only four works on Tyneside.[64]

Alkali manufacturing

 
Friars Goose Alkali Works had the highest chimney in England to disperse hydrochloric acid fumes

Before the industrial revolution alkali was mostly used to aid the bleaching process of cloth. As the industrial revolution took hold, increasing demand for alkali came from higher production of dyestuffs, and bleach. In 1798 John Losh and the Earl of Dundonald took out a lease for a rich supply of brine pumped from a nearby coal mine, the Walker pit, becoming the supplier of raw material for The Losh, Wilson & Bell Alkali works. The works were established at Walker-on-Tyne in 1807 and bleaching powder manufacture began there in 1830, Losh Brothers soon manufactured half the soda in England. By 1814 the Leblanc process of making alkali from common salt was introduced to Britain. Alkali works using this process opened at Tyne Dock 1822, Felling shore Tyneside 1826, Friars Goose Gateshead 1828 and again on Felling Shore in 1834. Such works also produced soda, alum and Epsom salts. The river frontage at South Shore of the River Tyne at Gateshead was one of the main locations for the chemical industry such that in the 19th century, which led to a cluster of iron, soap and alkali manufacturing.[65] By 1828 the alkali works had a large problem controlling emissions of hydrochloric acid fumes which devastated the neighbouring countryside. One solution was to build tall chimneys to drive the fumes further away and in 1833 the tallest chimney in England was built at the Friars Goose Alkali Works.[64][66] The passing of the Alkali Act of 1863 in the UK Parliament brought about a further reduced pollution from these processes and was the first industrial environmental legislation to come into practice globally.

Salt making

Salt-making in and around Greatham (between Hartlepool and Billingham) had been important in Roman and medieval times,[67][68] and salt was also produced on Wearside from the 1580s, but by the 16th century the industry had been eclipsed by South Shields on the Tyne.[69] In 1894 the industry returned to Greatham with the establishment of the Greatham Salt and Brine Company by George Weddell. The works was later purchased by the famous salt-making company Cerebos in 1903. By the mid-20th century, Cerebos was owned by the food conglomerate Rank Hovis McDougall, and the factory closed in 2002.[70]

Glass

Glass manufacture has been an important industry in the Northeast of England since stained glass glaziers worked on the Wearmouth and Jarrow monasteries in 674 AD.[71][72] Sunderland and Tyneside were noted for glass-making between the 17th and 19th centuries.[73] In 1827 about two fifths of all English glass was made in the Tyneside area and in 1845 South Shields was making more plate glass than anywhere else in England. Sunderland was also rising to prominence as a glass-making centre, with James Hartley's Wear Glass Works opening in 1836,[74] and by 1865 one third of the sheet glass in England was supplied by his Sunderland works. The Candlish Glass Bottleworks was the largest in Europe, managed by John Candlish

William Beilby produced decorative glass items in Newcastle during the mid 1700s.

Coal mining

 
Wynyard Park circa 1880 now a hotel, Wynyard Hall

Coal mining was one of the first industrial activities in Northeast England because the region was fortunate to have shallow seams of coal near the coast, which meant that material could be transported in and out by sea.[75] This led to the growth of ports in Sunderland, Newcastle, Teesport Middlesbrough, Seaham, Hartlepool and Blyth. The energy from coal underpinned the development of many of the industries around these ports. As discussed in the classic historical review of "Victorian Cities" by Asa Briggs, Middlesbrough was developed as a port downstream of Yarm and Stockton to take bigger coal ships.[76] The Northumberland-Durham coalfield was one of the earliest coal mining areas to be worked in the country, with the Romans extracting coal here which caused the area to become an important source of coal in the 13th and 14th centuries.[77] Many current towns and villages across the region were originally settlements set up for the coal miners. For example, Seaham is a port community that was developed to handle output of the coal mining interests of Charles William Vane-Tempest-Stewart the 3rd Marquis of Londonderry, a military leader and business man who became one of the UK's richest men due to his coal mining developments.[78][79] The Marquis built his business interests using the inherited wealth of his wife Francis Anne. The Marquis also built one of the country's finest country houses in the region as a palace for his family and his royal connections. It is called Wynyard Hall.[80]

London was one of the places which received coal from the area and there are references to shipments of coal being sent to the capital, for example 526 cauldrons of coal from Tyneside to London in 1376 for smiths involved in building Windsor Castle. Before the growth of mining companies, the coal from the North East was often sent to London using monks. The coal was often called sea coal because it often washed up from undersea outcrops on the Northumbrian coast. This could explain the name Se-coles Lane in London.[75] It also led to the colloquial phrase "taking coals to Newcastle", meaning why take something to a place that already has an excess of it.

Improvements in technology meant equipment could be built to go deeper than ever before. One example was the High Main seam at Walker Colliery on Tyneside, which became one of the deepest coal mines in the world, thanks to large engine cylinders which helped drain the mine.[81] Other mining developments from this region include water level and ventilation techniques introduced by John Buddle who also helped to introduce the miner's safety lamp which was invented here by Stephenson and Davy.

 
Miners in the cage ready for their descent, Monkwearmouth Colliery, 1993.

Sir Humphry Davy, after contemplating a communication he had received from Reverend Dr Robert Gray Rector of Bishopwearmouth (later Bishop of Bristol) regarding the problem of gas in mines, took up the challenge of solving the problem of providing light in "fire-damp" ridden collieries. He started the work with several days of discussions with John Buddle, the overseer at Wallsend Colliery, other colliery owners and finally the Reverend John Hodgson, Vicar of Jarrow. Davy also collected samples of "fire-damp" before returning to his laboratory in London. Two designs of his lamps emerged and were tested at the most hazardous pits in the country, then at Newcastle-upon- Tyne and Whitehaven in Cumberland, and were a resounding success. He later published his paper on "The safety lamp for coal mines and some researches on flame" in 1818, which made underground coal mines much more safe. George Stephenson a colliery engineer at Killingworth Main Colliery also invented a safety lamp which was successfully tested on 21 October 1815. This became known as the "Geordie" lamp. As a result, some in the Northeast then tried to challenge the delivery of some Ceremonial Plate to Davy but the Davy Lamper's won the day and on 25 September 1817 a dinner service as presented to Davy from the coal owners at the Queen's Head in Newcastle. Davy declined to take out a patent on his lamp design effectively giving it to the nation and the world's coal miners.[82]

The moment when the new safety lamp was first tested was recorded by John Buddle in a report from the Select Committee on Accidents in Mines on 4 September 1835 "I first tried the lamp in an explosive mixture on the surface; and then took it to the mine; it is impossible for me to express my feelings at the time when I first suspended the lamp in the mine and saw it red hot. I said to those around me: "We have at last subdued this monster [fire-damp]." With some describing it as one of the most significant moments in the industrialization of the world."[83]

As an example of the many coal mines (colloquially known as pits) that were created in the Northeast's Monkwearmouth Colliery (or Wearmouth Colliery) was a large deep pit that went out under the North Sea. It was located on the north bank of the River Wear and was the largest pit in Sunderland and one of the most important in County Durham. The mine opened in 1835 and was the last to remain operating in the Durham Coalfield, with the last shift leaving the pit on 10 December 1993 and ending over 800 years of commercial underground coal mining in the region.[84] The Colliery site has been cleared to make way for the Sunderland A.F.C's Stadium of Light which opened in July 1997. The mine is commemorated by a large sculpture of a miners lamp at the entrance to the stadium.

The Durham Coalfield remains a national resource for the UK economy today and for the future. Most of the mines in the region were closed during the years of UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (see UK miners' strike (1984–1985)) however several large open cast coal mines are still operational in the region.

Today companies like Five-Quarter are investigating the use of the latest technology for underground coal gasification to access the Durham Coalfield reserves. Professor Paul Younger of Newcastle University in 2011 reported[85] that "Around 75 per cent of the coal in the North East is still underground, even though we have been mining it on an industrial scale longer than anyone else in the world. Previously a lot of this coal was too deep for conventional mining, or too far off shore. Even today this resource this could never be exploited by conventional means, but the technology to harness that resource has now become cost effective." Accessing these reserves is of particular importance to the local chemical industry.[86]

Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding was once one of this region's largest industrial sectors. Ships were built on the River Wear at Sunderland from at least 1346 and on the River Tees at Stockton from at least 1470,[87] with the Northeast of England more generally being the birthplace of some of the world's greatest vessels. This was recognised in 2013 with the regions shipbuilding heritage and global impact being recognized by UNESCO and placed on their Memory of the World Register, ranking the regions shipbuilding heritage alongside iconic items such as the Domesday Book in terms of historical importance.[88]

Wood to iron and steel

The early ships were built of wood, but in the 19th century there was a move towards building ships of iron then steel. Ships were built across the region, especially along Tyneside in Jarrow and Wearside in Sunderland and also in smaller ports like Blyth, Whitby and Hartlepool. Sunderland's early development was due to coal but it later transitioned to become the largest shipbuilding town in the world[89] giving the town its fame. The first recorded shipbuilder was Thomas Menville at Hendon in 1346.[90] By 1790 Sunderland was building around nineteen ships per year making it the most important shipbuilding centre in the United Kingdom. By 1840 there were 65 shipyards such that over 150 wooden vessels were built at Sunderland in 1850. At this time 2,025 shipwrights worked in the town and some 2,000 others were employed in related industries. Sunderland's first iron ships were built from 1852 and wooden shipbuilding ceased here in 1876. Sunderland shipbuilders included Austin and Son, William Pickersgill and William Doxford.[87]

It was between 1790 and 1805 that Thomas Haw of Stockton began building ships for the Napoleonic wars. Shipbuilding did not begin in Middlesbrough until 1833 when a wooden sailing ship called The Middlesbro' was built. Teesside's first iron ship was built in Thornaby in 1854, it was a screw steamer called The Advance, and Teesside's first steel ship was Little Lucy built in 1858. One famous Teesside-built ship was the 377-foot (115 m) long Talpore, built by Pearse and Co of Stockton in 1860. It was a troop ship for the River Indus, and was the world's largest river steamer at the time.[91] An archive of the ships built on Teesside has been created,[92] In Hartlepool Thomas Richardson of Castle Eden and John Parkin of Sunderland established a shipyard at Old Hartlepool in 1835 and built The Castle Eden ship. The shipbuilding company of William Gray was established here in 1862 and Gray became one of the most influential men in the town. He was the first mayor of West Hartlepool in 1887. William Gray shipbuilders won the Blue Ribband prize for maximum output in 1878, 1882, 1888, 1895, 1898 and 1900. The yard closed in 1961.[93]

 
RMS Mauretania on its Tyneside builder's ways before launch in 1906

On Tyneside, Charles Mark Palmer, born in South Shields, established a yard at Jarrow in 1851 and built its first iron collier, The John Bowes, in the following year. It was the first ever seagoing screw collier and was built for John Bowes of Barnard Castle for shipping coal to London. Palmer was also famed for building the first rolled armour plates for warships in 1854. William Smith and Co launched the 1,600-ton Blenheim in 1848. W. G. Armstrong, the famous northern engineer, acquired an interest in the Tyneside shipbuilding firm of Mitchells in 1882, and the company of W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell and Co was formed. The yard built battleships as well as a ship called Gluckauf, which was arguably the world's first oil tanker. It was launched by the yard in 1886. Scotsman Charles Mitchell started building ships at Walker-on-Tyne in 1852 and purchased a 6.5-acre (2.6 ha) site at Wallsend in 1873 to soak up excess orders from his Walker shipyard. The new yard failed financially and was handed to his brother-in-law Charles Swan. Charles and his brother Henry were directors of the Wallsend Slipway Company, a repair yard established by Mitchell in 1871. In 1878 Charles arranged a partnership with Sunderland shipbuilder George Hunter, but in 1879 Charles died after falling overboard from a channel steamer whilst returning from the Continent with his wife. Hunter went into temporary partnership with Swan's wife before becoming Managing Director in 1880. Swan Hunters built their first steel ship at Wallsend in 1884 and their first oil tanker in 1889.

Most early ships built at the Swan Hunter yard were smaller, like colliers and barges, but in 1898 it built its first ocean liner, Ultonia, with a further 21 liners being built between 1898 and 1903. The most famous ship ever launched there was undoubtedly Mauretania, a transatlantic ocean liner that launched on 20 September 1906. The ship was 790-foot (240 m) long, with a Beam (nautical) of 88 ft (27 m) and a gross register tonnage of 31,938 tons. It carried 2,000 passengers on its maiden voyage on 16 November 1907 and won the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, a record held for 22 years.[87]

Maritime innovation

A major pioneering innovation in marine engineering was the steam turbine, invented by Charles Algernon Parsons. He patented the first steam turbine on Tyneside in 1884. Parsons, born in Ireland in 1854, was the youngest son of the Earl of Rosse and a keen inventor, who was a junior partner in the Tyneside engineering firm of Clarke Chapman. In 1894 Parsons' Marine Turbine Company launched Turbinia, the first ship to be powered by electric turbines. She can be still be seen (and boarded) at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne.[94]

20th-century decline

Shipyard closures in the 20th century took place during economic slumps and occurred in two phases, between 1909–1933 and 1960–1993. Early closures included Smiths Dock at North Shields in 1909, which became a ship repair yard, Armstrongs of Elswick in 1921, Richardson Duck of Stockton (1925), Priestman's of Sunderland (1933) and Palmers of Jarrow and Hebburn (1933). There were 28 North East closures in this period of which 14 were on the Tyne, 7 on the Wear, 6 on the Tees and 1 at Hartlepool. Six shipyards closed in the 1960s including W.Gray of Hartlepool (1961), Short Brothers of Sunderland (1964) and The Blyth Shipbuiding Company (1966). There were five closures in the region in the 1970s including the Furness yard at Haverton Hill, near Stockton, in 1979.[87]

Science and engineering

 
Tyne Bridge built by Middlesbrough Company Dorman Long

The coal and shipbuilding industry that once dominated the North East suffered a marked decline during the second half of the 20th century. Tyneside is now re-inventing itself as an international centre of art, culture and through The Centre For Life, scientific research, especially in healthcare and biotechnology. Newcastle University is now a leading institution in the development of stem cell technology being the first in the United Kingdom and the second institution in Europe to obtain a licence to do such work.[95] As with the rest of the region, Sunderland suffered economic decline during the last century, but is now becoming an important area for quaternary industry, bioscience, computing and high tech industries. The economy of Sunderland is now dominated by the Nissan's European car manufacturing facility and supply chain which is also leading that company's development of electric vehicles.[96]

The economy of Teesside continues to be largely based on the petrochemical, commodity chemical and steel industries that form a significant part of the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC), but newer industries such as offshore engineering and digital computing, particularly in the field of Game design, have emerged from Teesside University.[97] Northumberland, although largely rural and an important tourist location with its castles, beaches, and history has a nationally significant concentration of pharmaceutical manufacturing companies around Cramlington and Prudhoe.[98] The county has also seen a huge investment into the creation of the UKs largest reservoir, Kielder Water, enabling the Northeast to attract more industry. Kielder forest around the reservoir is known to have the darkest night sky in England,[99] making it an ideal location for both professional and amateur astronomers. The City of Durham with its highly regarded University, Castle and Cathedral attracts many tourists and also a significant number of knowledge intensive businesses (KIBS) in architecture, engineering, technology and measurement science. At Sedgefield in County Durham, Netpark is home to the Centre for Process Innovation's Printable Electronics Technology Centre, a nationally important centre for the development of printed electronics and a number of other emerging electronics companies such as Kromek.

Today, the members of the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) represent about one third of the regional industrial economy. The NEPIC is constituted by commodity chemical, petrochemical, speciality chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, polymer, renewable material and renewable energy companies and the associated supply chains. The Teesside industry is located on three large chemical sites at Wilton, Billingham and Seal Sands at the mouth of the River Tees and Teesport, the third largest port in the UK and the tenth in Western Europe and is important logistical infrastructure supporting the commodity chemical and steel members of NEPIC. In the 21st century PD Ports, owners of Teesport, have been developing it as a Port Centric Logistical Centre. This strategy has seen a number of significant importing and distribution facilities for the north of the UK being built here, including distribution centres for the distribution operations of Asda/Walmart and Tesco supermarket chains.[100]

NEPIC has two offices in the region: one in the north in Sunderland, serving the pharmaceutical and speciality chemical industries on Tyneside and in south Northumberland, and one in the south at Wilton near Redcar, serving the commodity chemical and steel industry of Teesside and operating amongst several process sector and supply chain companies that work out of the process industry research centre, The Wilton Centre, one of Europe's largest technical development laboratory facilities. The head office of the Centre for Process Innovation, part of the UK's High Value Manufacturing Catapult, is based in this multi-occupancy technical development centre along with their pioneering National Industrial Biotechnology Facility.[101][102]

Innovations

This region has a strong history in technological innovation:

The friction match was invented in Stockton-on-Tees in 1826 by John Walker.

George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives. Renowned as the father of railways[103] George Stephenson was born in Wylam, Northumberland, 9.3 miles (15.0 km) west of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was a British physicist and chemist from Sunderland, County Durham now the (City of Sunderland). He is most famous for inventing an incandescent light bulb before its invention by the American Thomas Edison. Swan first demonstrated the light bulb at a lecture the Literary and Philosophical Society and on Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne on 18 December 1878. Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne is reputed to be the first street in the world to be lit by electric light.[104]

 
Turbinia

Charles Algernon Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1884, and having foreseen its potential to power ships he set up the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company with five associates in 1893. To develop this he had the experimental vessel Turbinia built in a light design of steel by the firm of Brown and Hood, based at Wallsend on Tyne. He also pioneered in the field of electricity generation, establishing the Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company in 1889. The company opened the first power station in the world to generate electricity using turbo generators in 1890, at Forth Banks in Newcastle.

William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, CB, FRS (26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900) was an effective Tyneside industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing empire. He was responsible for the development of the hydraulic crane and many military armaments. His house at Cragside, Northumberland was the first in the world to be lit by hydro-electricity, using incandescent lamps provided by the inventor Joseph Swan.

In 1936 the first commercially viable production of acrylic safety glass, Perspex, began by ICI Acrylics and the material is still manufactured in the region by Lucite International now part of Mitsubishi Corporation. During the Second World War acrylic glass was used for submarine periscopes, windshields, canopies, and gun turrets for airplanes.[105] Shortages in raw materials and price pressures have led to innovation by Lucite who developed their patented Alpha Technology in this region. This technology is now the leading technology used in the manufacture of acrylics around the world. It uses new feedstock's and has a cost advantage of 40% over conventional processing methods.[106]

Newcastle University was the first in the UK and the second in Europe to receive a licence to perform research on stem cells and is a leading centre for such research today. Dr Karim Nayernia was the first to isolate spermatagonial stem cells at this University. Many new healthcare developments have arisen from this stem cell expertise in the region.

Today the region has five universities with a number of research departments: Durham University, Newcastle University, Northumbria University, University of Sunderland and Teesside University, which have a portfolio of many innovative businesses that have spun out of their research and teaching departments.[107]

Media

Local media includes:

Regional television is provided by the BBC North East and Cumbria, which broadcasts the regional evening Look North programme from Spital Tongues in Newcastle. Its commercial rival, ITV Tyne Tees & Border, broadcasts the evening programme ITV News Tyne Tees from Gateshead.

BBC Radios Newcastle and Tees. National radio comes from Bilsdale on the North York Moors for Teesside, Pontop Pike in County Durham for Tyne and Wear, and Chatton near Wooler for Northumberland. These transmitters are also the main television transmitters. Commercial radio stations such as Metro Radio, Heart North East (formally Real Radio), Capital North East (formerly Galaxy), Smooth North East, TFM, Greatest Hits Radio Teesside (formally called Magic, then TFM 2), Greatest Hits Radio North East (formally called Magic, then Metro 2 Radio) and Sun FM. Digital radio comes from the Bauer Tyne & Wear and Bauer Teesside multiplexes. There are also Nova Radio North East, Radio Hartlepool and Spark FM community radio stations.

Regional newspapers include the Evening Chronicle, Sunderland Echo, The Journal, Evening Gazette, Shields Gazette, Hartlepool Mail, The Northern Echo and the Darlington and Stockton Times. There are also free publications such as The Ferryhill Chapter, Bishop Press, The Hartlepool Post and Shildon Town Crier.

Transport

Rail

 
Commuter rail services in the region
 
Darlington Station

Road

 
Angel of the North seen while entering Tyneside
See also: Transport in Tyne and Wear and Tees Valley

The North East's main arterial carriageway is the A1 road, which mirrors the East Coast Main Line's course. In County Durham this road is of motorway standard and is known as the A1(M), and in March 2018 a section of A1(M) was opened between Barton and Leeming Bar in North Yorkshire providing a continuous link to the motorway network in the rest of England. However, the A1 is still an all-purpose road in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland, and is controversially still single carriageway north of Morpeth, despite being the main trunk route connecting Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne and having a terrible safety record.[citation needed]

A second north–south dual carriageway link is provided by the A19 which heads north from Thirsk (accessed via the A168 from the A1(M) at Dishforth), serving Teesside, Peterlee and Sunderland before heading through the Tyne Tunnel to meet the A1 at Seaton Burn. The Tyne Tunnel was opened as a single-carriageway in 1967, with a second tunnel opening in February 2011 for dual-ing.

The course of the A1 through Tyne and Wear has changed twice during the late 20th century. Originally passing through the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne then, in 1977, it was re-routed to the east of the city through the Tyne Tunnel. In 1993 a second rerouting occurred, along Newcastle Western Bypass, west of the city. Each of these resulted in standing roads to be renumbered, the A1 forms the boundary and roads between beginning with 1 and 6.

The A66 (Tees Valley) and A68 (often following the Roman road Dere Street) are cross-country roads over the North Pennines. The A69 heads west along the Tyne Valley to Carlisle in Cumbria.

Sea

 
Queen of Scandinavia berthed at North Shields

The ferry terminal at North Shields is accessed via the A187 from the Tyne Tunnel. DFDS operate two ferries a day to Amsterdam and, formerly, one a day on the Stavanger – Haugesund – Bergen route.

Air

The two main airports are Newcastle Airport, located north of the city near Ponteland, and Teesside International Airport, located east of Darlington.

The region's population is served by a charitable service known as the Great North Air Ambulance for those who need rapid transfer to a hospital or medical assistance in difficult or remote locations.

Transport policy

Long term planning for transport in the region has involved the development of sub regional strategies. This planning also needs to take into account region wide transport schemes such as those carried out by the Highways Agency and Network Rail.[109] These activities in the United Kingdom now fall into the remit of the Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) which in the Northeast of England are and the North East LEP.[110] Bodies such as the Northeast Chamber of Commerce (NECC) and the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) are providers of significant practical insights to policy makers.[111][112]

Within the region the local transport authorities plan for the future by producing Local Transport Plans (LTP) which outline their strategies, policies and implementation programmes.[113] The most recent LTP is that for the period 2006–11. In the North East region the following transport authorities have published their LTP online: the 5 Tees Valley authorities,[114][115][116][117][118] Durham,[119] Tyne and Wear[120] and Northumberland.[121]

Education

Main article: Lists of schools in England § North East of England

Primary

There are over 250 nursery/primary schools in the County Durham area of the north east, which range from schools with their own nursery, to schools that are either infant only or junior only.[122] Areas such as Gosforth have first schools which have neither years 5 nor 6, and therefore educate children up to the age of 8 and 9.

Secondary

 
Hummersknott School near Darlington

The North East education system consists largely of comprehensive schools, but a number of private and independent schools are found in Newcastle, Sunderland, Durham, Darlington, Stockton and in particular, Northumberland.

in 2014 a number of the regions schools were in the top 20% of schools as measured by SSAT — the UK organisation for school improvement and collaboration — and have been awarded an SSAT Educational Outcomes Award recognising their successes. These schools are Burnside Business & Enterprise College, in Newcastle, Castle View Enterprise Academy, in Sunderland, Emmanuel College, in Gateshead, Greenfield Community College, in Newton Aycliffe, Northumberland Church of England Academy, in Ashington and The North Durham Academy in Stanley.[123] The awards, recognised high attainment and outstanding continuous improvement.

The schools in the top 20% for high attainment in GCSE exams were Burnside Business and Enterprise College and Northumberland Church of England Academy

The region's secondary school attendance is the lowest in England at around 125,000, with the next lowest in the East Midlands. Truancy at its schools is a mixed picture. It has the second highest overall rate for urban areas, after Yorkshire and the Humber, but the lowest rate in England in its rural areas. Middlesbrough has the region's highest rate with 7.2% persistent truants, which is the second highest rate in England after Manchester (7.3%). Next is Newcastle upon Tyne, with 6.4%, then the former district of Wansbeck, with 6.3%

At General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) level, the region's performance is similar to that of other largely urban areas, although its results are generally below the national average. Middlesbrough tends to perform the worst, and to produce results well below the national average. Local education authorities (LEAs) in the North East have improved at GCSE in recent years. North Tyneside performed the best in 2011, followed by Gateshead, Northumberland, and Darlington. No LEA in the North-East was above the 2011 national GCSE average. South Tyneside was the lowest for the English Baccalaureate, followed by Middlesbrough and Hartlepool. Gateshead and North Tyneside were the highest, and Gateshead was the only LEA above the national average for this measure.

The region's parochial schools tend to perform better at GCSE: these include St Thomas More Catholic School, Blaydon; Emmanuel College, Gateshead; All Saints Academy, Ingleby Barwick; The English Martyrs School, Hartlepool; St Bede's Catholic School, Lanchester and the Carmel College, Darlington. Other regional schools that perform well include Whitley Bay High School, Marden High School in Cullercoats, the Macmillan Academy in Middlesbrough, Park View School in Chester-le Street and the Hurworth School near Darlington. Northumberland schools have a three-tier system, 12 year olds go into high school instead of 11 year olds going into a secondary school.

Dame Allan's Schools, Royal Grammar School (NRGS), Barnard Castle School and Durham School are all members of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The Central Newcastle High School and the Royal Grammar School were named as among the nation's top 100 independent schools in 2006. Durham School is considered to be one of the oldest schools in the UK, and its Old Boys were the founding members of the original Newcastle Falcons Rugby club. Mowden Hall School, a selective day and boarding prep school in Northumberland, is another independent school. In the region, school children from Northumberland are most likely to attend university, followed by Stockton on Tees and North Tyneside. Some secondary schools in the region are also sixth-forms colleges.

College

 
QE Sixth Form College in Darlington

There are sixteen further education colleges in the region.[124] The main such colleges are East Durham College, Newcastle College, New College Durham, Darlington College, Gateshead College, Bishop Auckland College, Stockton Riverside College, Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, Hartlepool College of Further Education, Middlesbrough College, Northern School of Art and Design and Sunderland College.[citation needed]

North East LEAs at A-level are improving, but produce results below those of other areas of England. Sunderland performed the best in 2011, with consistently good results, followed by Hartlepool and Darlington, which are above the national average, and unrepresentative of most areas in the North East. Darlington's Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College is one of the highest-rated colleges in England. The area's Catholic schools all do reasonably well at A level. Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland and Newcastle were also above England's average. Newcastle does significantly better at A-level than at GCSE, with consistent improvement, while Gateshead does much worse at A-level than GCSE, and produced the second lowest A-level results in the region in 2009. The worst results at A-level were from Middlesbrough, Durham, South Tyneside and Gateshead. South Tyneside had in previous years been consistently the region's worst performing LEA at A-level.

Many of region's colleges provide higher education validated by a university.

University

 
Newcastle University

The North East is has five universities; Durham University, Newcastle University (both in the Russell Group), Northumbria University in Newcastle, Teesside University (Middlesbrough and Darlington) and the University of Sunderland.

See also

Notes

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Further reading

  • Cunningham, Sean. "Henry VII and rebellion in north-eastern England, 1485–1492: bonds of allegiance and the establishment of Tudor authority." Northern History 32.1 (1996): 42–74.
  • Ellis, Steven G. "Region and Frontier in the English State: the English Far North, 1296-1603" (2009) online.
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  • Lancaster, Bill. "The North East, England's most distinctive region." in An agenda for regional history (2007): 27+.
  • Lomas R. North-east England in the middle ages (Edinburgh, 1992).
  • Namier, Lewis. "North-Eastern England in the Eighteenth Century." History Today (July 1953) 3#7 pp 484–489.
  • Palliser, David Michael. Medieval York: 600-1540 (Oxford University Press, 2014).
  • Pollard, A. J. North-eastern England During the Wars of Roses: Lay Society, War, and Politics, 1450-1500 (Oxford University Press, 1990).
  • Tomaney, John. "In search of English regionalism: the case of the North East." Scottish Affairs 28.1 (1999): 62–82.

External links

 
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For similar areas see Northumbria modern and North East Combined Authority The lead section of this article may need to be rewritten The reason given is Most of the information here is not in the body of the article and is unsupported by references Use the lead layout guide to ensure the section follows Wikipedia s norms and is inclusive of all essential details October 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes a The region has three current administrative levels below the region level in the region combined authority unitary authority or metropolitan district and civil parishes They are also multiple divisions without administrative functions ceremonial county emergency services fire and rescue and police built up areas and historic county The most populous places in the region are Newcastle upon Tyne city Middlesbrough Sunderland city Gateshead Darlington and Hartlepool Durham also has city status North East EnglandRegionShown within EnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomConstituent countryEnglandCombined authoritiesNorth of TyneNorth EastTees ValleyCeremonial countiesNorthumberlandTyne and WearCounty DurhamNorth Yorkshire part Districts7 unitary5 metropolitanArea Total3 317 sq mi 8 592 km2 Rank8thPopulation 2018 1 Total2 657 909 Rank9th Density800 sq mi 310 km2 GVA Per capita 15 688 9th ITL codeTLCONS codeE1200001MPsLabour 19Conservative 10Police3 Territorial Police ForcesAmbulanceNorth East Ambulance ServiceFire and Rescue4 Fire and Rescue Services Contents 1 History 2 Local government 2 1 Elections 2 2 2004 regional assembly referendum 2 3 Combined authorities 3 Geography 3 1 Climate 3 2 Biodiversity 4 Landmarks 5 Demographics 5 1 Ethnicity 5 2 Population genetics 5 3 Teenage pregnancy 5 4 Social deprivation 5 5 ONS ITL 6 Economy 6 1 Support organisations 6 2 Enterprise zones 7 Industrial heritage 7 1 Alkali manufacturing 7 2 Salt making 7 3 Glass 7 4 Coal mining 7 5 Shipbuilding 7 5 1 Wood to iron and steel 7 5 2 Maritime innovation 7 5 3 20th century decline 7 5 4 Science and engineering 7 6 Innovations 8 Media 9 Transport 9 1 Rail 9 2 Road 9 3 Sea 9 4 Air 9 5 Transport policy 10 Education 10 1 Primary 10 2 Secondary 10 3 College 10 4 University 11 See also 12 Notes 13 References 14 Further reading 15 External linksHistory Edit 12th century wall painting of St Cuthbert in Durham Cathedral The region s historic importance is displayed by Northumberland s ancient castles the two World Heritage Sites of Durham Cathedral and Durham Castle 2 and Hadrian s Wall 3 one of the frontiers of the Roman Empire In fact Roman archaeology can be found widely across the region and a special exhibition based around the Roman Fort of Segedunum at Wallsend 4 and the other forts along Hadrian s Wall are complemented by the numerous artifacts that are displayed in the Great North Museum Hancock 5 in Newcastle St Peter s Church in Monkwearmouth Sunderland and St Pauls in Jarrow also hold significant historical value and have a joint bid to become a World Heritage Site citation needed The area has a strong religious past as can be seen in works such as the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Anglo Saxon Chronicle 6 The works of Cuthbert 634 687 AD Bede 673 735 AD and Hilda of Whitby 614 680 AD were hugely influential in the early church and are still venerated by some today 7 8 These saints are usually associated with the monasteries on the island of Lindisfarne Wearmouth Jarrow and the Abbey at Whitby though they are also associated with many other religious sites in the region Bede is regarded as the greatest Anglo Saxon scholar He worked at the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow translating some forty books on all areas of knowledge including nature history astronomy poetry and theological matters such as the lives of the saints His best known work is The Ecclesiastical History of the English People 9 One of the most famous pieces of art and literature created in the region is the Lindisfarne Gospels thought to be the work of a monk named Eadfrith who became Bishop of Lindisfarne in 698 This body of work is thought to have been created in honour of Cuthbert around 710 720 10 In 793 the Vikings arrived on the shores of north east England with a raiding party from Norway who attacked the monastic settlement on Lindisfarne 11 The monks fled or were slaughtered and Bishop Higbald sought refuge on the mainland A chronicler recorded On the 8th June the harrying of the heathen miserably destroyed God s church by rapine and slaughter There were three hundred years of Viking raids battles and settlement until William the Conqueror defeated King Harold at Hastings in 1066 12 The Anglo Saxon Chronicle notes the change from raiding to settlement when it records that in 876 the Vikings Shared out the land of the Northumbrians and they proceeded to plough and support themselves 13 The Anglo Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria extended from the Scottish borders then Pictish borders at the Firth of Forth to the north and to the south of York its capital down to the Humber The last independent Northumbrian king from 947 8 was Eric Bloodaxe who died at the Battle of Stainmore Westmorland in 954 After Eric Bloodaxe s death all England was ruled by Eadred the grandson of Alfred the Great and so began the machinery of national government 14 Today the Viking legacy can still be found in the language and place names of north east England and in the DNA of its people 15 The name Newcastle comes from the castle built shortly after the conquest in 1080 by Robert Curthose William the Conqueror s eldest son citation needed Local government EditThe region comprises the following local authorities Local authority County Combined authority if applicable Northumberland North of TyneNewcastle upon Tyne Tyne and WearNorth TynesideGateshead North EastSouth TynesideSunderlandCounty Durham County DurhamDarlington Tees ValleyHartlepoolStockton on Tees north Tees Stockton on Tees south Tees North Yorkshire part only Redcar and ClevelandMiddlesbroughThe region was created in 1994 and was originally defined as the metropolitan boroughs of Newcastle upon Tyne Gateshead North Tyneside South Tyneside and City of Sunderland together with the ceremonial counties of Northumberland County Durham and Cleveland A reform of local government abolished Cleveland and splitting the former area between County Durham and North Yorkshire However the former Cleveland area has a series of local authorities making the technical relocation of places in the region purely ceremonial Elections Edit The North East has a strong tendency to vote Labour In the 2015 election 47 of the electorate voted Labour while 25 voted Conservative 17 UKIP 6 Liberal Democrat and 4 Green At the 2009 European election Labour got 25 of the region s vote the Conservatives 20 the Liberal Democrats 18 and UK Independence Party 15 16 However in recent years the North East has seen a significant swing away from Labour In the 2019 election many constituencies were targeted by the Conservatives and their representation increased to 10 MPs The region wide vote shares were 43 for Labour and 38 for the Conservatives with the Brexit Party a distant third on 8 Numbers of MPs returned per party total 29 Affiliation 2010 15 2015 17 2017 19 2019 presentConservative Party 2 3 3 10Labour Party 25 26 26 19Liberal Democrat UK 2 0 0 0 2004 regional assembly referendum Edit In November 2004 a referendum on whether a directly elected regional assembly should be set up for North East England resulted in a decisive no vote The number of people who voted against the plans was 696 519 78 while 197 310 22 voted in favour John Prescott the Deputy Prime Minister at the time admitted that his plans for regional devolution had suffered an emphatic defeat to the no campaign spearheaded by Dominic Cummings Bernard Jenkin the Conservative spokesman for the regions said the vote would mean the end of plans for a North East Assembly He told the BBC The whole idea of regional government has been blown out of the water by this vote 17 Combined authorities Edit The former Association of North East Councils was based in Newcastle upon Tyne and the preceding North East Assembly was based in Gateshead until its dissolution in 2009 Local enterprise partnerships were established these later became combined authorities The North East Combined Authority was established in 2014 and covered much of the region excluding Tees Valley North of Tyne authorities later split off leaving authorities south of the River Tyne The Tees Valley boroughs Darlington Hartlepool Stockton on Tees Redcar amp Cleveland and Middlesbrough established the Tees Valley Combined Authority in 2016 Geography EditGeographic features Lindisfarne Castle Holy Island High Force Teesdale Cheviot Hills Whitley Bay The region is generally hilly and sparsely populated in the North and West and urban and arable in the East and South The highest point in the region is The Cheviot in the Cheviot Hills at 815 metres 2 674 ft The region contains the urban centres of Tyneside Wearside and Teesside and is noted for the rich natural beauty of its coastline Northumberland National Park and the section of the Pennines that includes Teesdale and Weardale Climate Edit North East England has a Marine west coast climate generally found along the west coast of middle latitude continents with narrower temperature ranges than the south of England and sufficient precipitation in all months Summers and winters are mild rather than extremely hot or cold due to the strong maritime influence of the North Atlantic Current of the Gulf Stream The Met Office operates several weather stations in the region 18 and are able to show the regional variations in temperature and its relation to the distance from the North Sea The warmest summers in the region are found in Stockton on Tees and the Middlesbrough area with a 1981 2010 July average high of 20 4 C 68 7 F 19 Precipitation is often low by English standards in spite of the low levels of sunshine with Stockton on Tees averaging only 574 2 millimetres 22 61 in annually and with the seaside town of Tynemouth despite its slightly sunnier climate recording 597 2 millimetres 23 51 in annually 20 The summers on the northern coastlines are significantly cooler than in the southern and central inland areas Tynemouth is only just above 18 C 64 F in July Further inland frosts during winter are more common due to the higher elevations and distance from the sea Biodiversity Edit The region has a diverse landscape that includes maritime cliffs and extensive moorland that contains a number of rare species of flora and fauna Of particular importance are the saltmarshes of Lindisfarne the Tees Estuary the heaths bogs and traditional upland hay meadows of the North Pennines and the Arctic alpine flora of Upper Teesdale The beauty of the Northumbrian coastline has led to its designation as an area of outstanding natural beauty AONB stretching 100 miles from Berwick Upon Tweed to the River Coquet estuary 21 Among the 290 bird species identified on the Farne Islands is the rare seabird the roseate tern One of the foremost bird sanctuaries and observatory for migratory and wading birds in the UK is now operated at Saltholme which is part of a wider site of special scientific interest called Seal Sands The Saltholme reserve is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds RSPB This project has been pronounced as one of the best places to view birds by Bill Oddie the celebrity bird watcher and former host of the BBC s Spring Watch Programme In December 2012 he also presented the project with a prize as the UK s favorite National Lottery funded project 22 The seal colony at Seal Sands on the mouth of the River Tees is thriving and stands at more than 60 harbour seals and this is the only breeding colony of this species on the northeast coast 23 Rainton Meadows is also a recently created bird watching site 24 The region is also the English stronghold of black grouse 25 and contains 80 90 of the UK population of yellow marsh saxifrage 26 The Magnesian Limestone grasslands of East Durham are a unique habitat not found anywhere else in the world which is particularly important to many species of butterfly and moths 27 The Northeast of England also features woodland such as Kielder Forest the largest man made forest in Europe 28 This is located within Northumberland National Park and contains an important habitat for the endangered red squirrel 29 Landmarks Edit Durham Cathedral is a UNESCO World Heritage Site The Angel of the North in Gateshead The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle Bamburgh Castle Holy Island and Lindisfarne Castle Hadrian s Wall St Mary s lighthouse Penshaw Monument Tynemouth Priory Alnwick Castle in winter Guisborough priory Yarm ViaductDemographics Edit Population pyramid in 2020 The North East with Scotland the South West of England Wales and Northern Ireland are the British regions to have seen the least immigration in over 50 years 30 The Northeast of England as a region has the lowest rate of HIV infection in the UK 31 but has the highest rate of heart attacks among men and of lung cancer among women in England along with the highest male lung cancer rate in the UK 32 As of November 2017 the region has the joint highest unemployment rate in the UK at 5 5 33 and as of April 2013 youth unemployment in the North East is 24 8 with 51 000 out of work 34 In 2010 the region had the second highest trade union membership among UK men 35 Higher education students from the North East are most likely to pick a university in their home region 36 The Northeast as part of the North demographic region has the highest proportion of Christians in Great Britain 37 Last immigration wave before 21st century was in the late 1990s as a result of the government s dispersal policy scheme that broke up refugee communities asylum seekers in South England relocating the new arrivals throughout the country In 2017 most migrants were non EU born and about 60 000 EU born 38 The North East has the smallest population of all English regions Ethnicity Edit Ethnic group 1991 39 2001 40 2011 41 2021 42 Number Number Number Number White Total 2 507 133 98 6 2 455 416 97 61 2 475 567 95 32 2 462 720 93 1 White British 2 425 592 96 42 2 431 423 93 62 2 397 557 90 6 White Irish 8 682 8 035 8 384 0 3 White Irish Traveller Gypsy 1 684 2 621 0 1 White Roma 2 375 0 1 White Other 21 142 34 425 51 783 2 0 Asian or Asian British Total 27 626 1 1 39 630 1 57 74 599 2 87 98 046 3 6 Asian or Asian British Indian 7470 10 156 15 817 22 021 0 8 Asian or Asian British Pakistani 9257 14 074 19 831 27 290 1 0 Asian or Asian British Bangladeshi 3416 6 167 10 972 16 355 0 6 Asian or Asian British Chinese 4519 6 048 14 284 14 442 0 5 Asian or Asian British Asian Other 2964 3 185 13 695 17 938 0 7 Black or Black British Total 4 057 0 2 3 953 0 15 13 220 0 5 26 635 1 Black or Black British African 1428 2 597 10 982 22 066 0 8 Black or Black British Caribbean 1013 927 1 193 1 704 0 1 Black or Black British Other 1616 429 1 045 2 865 0 1 Mixed Total 12 228 0 48 22 449 0 86 33 271 1 2 Mixed White and Caribbean 2 783 5 938 5 650 0 2 Mixed White and African 1 741 3 549 6 527 0 2 Mixed White and Asian 4 733 8 022 12 490 0 5 Mixed Other Mixed 2 971 4 940 8 604 0 3 Other Total 4753 0 2 4 215 0 16 11 051 0 42 26 342 1 Other Arab 5 850 10 406 0 4 Other Any other ethnic group 4753 0 2 4 215 0 16 5 201 15 936 0 6 Total 2 543 569 100 2 515 442 100 2 596 886 100 2 647 014 100 Population genetics Edit North East England together with Tweeddale was the ancient British tribal kingdom of Bernicia Bryneich and is notable for providing the stable ancestry of its present indigenous population which has been identified by DNA analysis to be an offshoot of the group Scotland Cumbria and the North of Ireland but not so closely related to the other peoples of the UK 43 44 In a 2022 study by Joscha Gretzinger et al the population of North East England was found to be among the groups with the highest amount of Iron Age Roman period British Isles related ancestry being on par with Cornish people in that regard 45 Teenage pregnancy Edit The Office for National Statistics in April 2013 report that the estimated number of conceptions to women aged under 18 in England and Wales in 2011 is the lowest since records began in 1969 46 Conception statistics include pregnancies that result in either one or more live births or stillbirths or a legal abortion A comparison of rates across regions in England shows that the North East had the highest of under 18 conception rates in 2011 with 38 4 per thousand women aged 15 17 The South East had the lowest rate for women aged under 18 in 2011 with 26 1 per thousand women aged 15 17 46 Social deprivation Edit A study into social deprivation was published in 2010 to help the local partners developing a Regional Strategy for the North East better understand the factors influencing deprivation in the region The study had two main aspects Firstly to establish if there are different types of deprived neighbourhoods in the Northeast and if so how deprived neighbourhoods can be better recognised Secondly to present a summary of what works in tackling deprivation in each of these types of area 47 The report discusses the factors influencing deprivation and points out that it is a significant problem for the North East with 34 of the regions Lower Super Output Areas LSOAs are amongst England s 20 most deprived in the 2007 Indices of Deprivation these indices have been updated in 2010 It takes many years for areas to become deprived suggesting that the underlying causes of area based deprivation are long term such as Major changes in the employment base which has changed the nature and spatial distribution of jobs in the UK and within specific regions and localities The residential sorting effects of the public and private housing markets Industrial restructuring has disproportionately affected some communities and groups In particular Job losses in manufacturing and coalmining were most severely felt in the north of England Scotland and Wales and particular communities within these areas As a result of the types of jobs that were lost some demographic groups particularly older working age males in skilled manual work were more likely to be affected than others The region s most deprived council districts as measured by the LSOA data 48 before County Durham and Northumberland became unitary authorities in 2007 are in descending order Easington 7th in England Middlesbrough 9th Hartlepool 23rd Wear Valley 33rd Sunderland 35th Newcastle upon Tyne 37th South Tyneside 38th Wansbeck 46th Redcar and Cleveland 50th Gateshead 52nd Sedgefield 54th Derwentside 73rd Blyth Valley 80th and Stockton on Tees 98th The least deprived council districts in 2007 were in descending order Tynedale Castle Morpeth Teesdale then Alnwick Since the April 2009 abolition of these four districts Northumberland is the least deprived followed by North Tyneside Unemployment is a severe problem in the North East where many children grow up in households where no adult works in 2010 Easington had the highest rate in the country as 40 3 of its households with children had no working adult followed by Sedgefield with 34 citation needed In 2013 the Office for National Statistics report issued the statements highlighted below 49 Employment rate highest in the South East 74 8 and lowest in the North East 66 6 Unemployment rate highest in the North East 10 1 and lowest in the South West 6 2 Inactivity rate highest in the North East 25 8 and lowest in the South East 19 8 Claimant Count rate highest in the North East 7 2 and lowest in the South East 2 7 In 2020 following George Floyd s murder it was reported that BAME communities suffered inequalities exacerbated by the poor housing of deprived neighbourhoods 50 ONS ITL Edit In the ONS International Territorial Levels ITL North East England is a level 1 ITL region coded UKC which is subdivided as follows ITL 1 Code ITL 2 Code ITL 3 CodeNorth East England UKC Tees Valley and Durham UKC1 Hartlepool and Stockton on Tees UKC11 South Teesside Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland UKC12Darlington UKC13Durham UKC14Northumberland and Tyne and Wear UKC2 Northumberland UKC21Tyneside Newcastle upon Tyne Gateshead South Tyneside North Tyneside UKC22Sunderland UKC23Economy EditThe latest statistical report from the Office for National Statistics comparing the North East of England to other regions of the United Kingdom 51 dated May 2012 states The North East has the highest value of goods exports relative to the size of its economy the highest percentage employed in the public sector and lowest gross household income per head of the English regions The North East s exports of goods expressed as a percentage of gross value added GVA were the highest of all the English regions at 29 in 2010 compared with the UK average of 20 Over half the region s goods exports were to the EU 55 52 A quarter of employed people in the region worked in the public sector in Q4 2011 24 6 the highest proportion among the English regions down from 26 9 in Q4 2009 In 2010 at local authority level the highest shares of public sector employee jobs were to be found in Newcastle upon Tyne and Middlesbrough both over 33 of all employee jobs Gross disposable household income GDHI of residents in the North East at 13 300 per head in 2010 was 15 below the UK average and the lowest of the English regions It ranged from 12 400 in Sunderland to 16 090 in Northumberland The North East region contributed 3 of the UK s GVA The region s headline GVA was 41 0 billion in 2010 The latest subregional data 2009 show that Tyneside generated 37 of the region s GVA at 14 6 billion In 2009 manufacturing industries generated 14 of the region s total GVA which is the largest industry contribution for the region Productivity in 2010 measured by GVA per hour worked was 88 of the UK rate one of the lowest of the English regions Within the region Northumberland s productivity was the third lowest in England at 75 of the UK rate in 2009 The region s employment rate was the lowest in England at 66 2 for Q4 2011 The latest subregional data for the year ending September 2011 show that North Tyneside had the highest employment rate at 72 6 The North East had the highest rate of economic inactivity of the English regions 25 of the population aged 16 to 64 in Q4 2011 The North East is the most affordable region in the UK Figures from 2017 indicate it is the UK region with lowest cost of living per household 53 Support organisations Edit Businesses in Northeast England are supported by the North East England Chamber of Commerce 54 The Northeast Chamber of Commerce NECC is based in Durham and has active sub committees working in all sub regions To further encourage SMEs in the North East of England to Export the Northeast Process Industry Cluster NEPIC has collaborated with the Northeast Chamber of Commerce NECC and RTC North Limited to create a jointly owned subsidiary company Go Global Limited to manage the contract they have to deliver the United Kingdom Trade amp Investment UKTI Government funded support products and programme for all business sectors in their region The UKTI business support products to help grow international trade are focused on supporting individual SMEs to grow their exports and they also support Trade Missions to new markets 55 The Northern Business Forum is an organisation created in the region to share knowledge and best practice between membership based business support organisations in the Northeast of England The Forum creates a single voice for business when this is needed This business led forum also links its member organisations to wider business issues both locally and nationally through the local and national business membership organisations that are also represented Members of the forum include NECC NEPIC the Federation of Small Businesses FSB Confederation of British Industry CBI North East the Make UK Northern The Institute of Directors IOD and RTC North RTC North provide business expertise in specific growth areas such as product innovation market research technology transfer commercialisation business growth North East Access to Finance NEA2F operates a business growth fund to help small and medium sized businesses SMES Enterprise zones Edit Businesses investing in the region are supported by the Local Enterprise Partnerships of Tees Valley part of the TVCA 56 and the North East Both these organisations manage enterprise zones Invest North East England and Tees Valley Business to encourage new business investors There are also several Industry and Business led Cluster bodies in the region to network and engage companies on a sector basis and give local business to business advice and supply chain intelligence the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster NEPIC chemicals polymers pharmaceuticals biotech the Northern Offshore Federation NOF energy and offshore engineering Service Network accountants finance law firms HR and Make UK defence related engineering Design Network North DNN design issues for all sectors The Invest North East was announced by the government in 2011 57 The zone focuses on technology for low carbon vehicle development marine offshore and subsea engineering petrochemicals and renewable energy 58 At the time of announcement the enterprise zone included two clusters of sites an Ultra Low Carbon Vehicle zone in Sunderland and a zone on the River Tyne North Bank 57 The Sunderland cluster is close to the Nissan plant and includes Turbine Business Park It hosts Gateshead College s Future Technology Centre 58 The cluster on the Tyne includes the Port of Tyne North Estate Swan Hunter in North Tyneside and Neptune Yard in Newcastle 57 The zone was launched in April 2012 58 In that year another cluster of sites composing the Blyth Estuary Renewable Energy Zone at Port of Blyth was added to the zone 59 The enterprise zone contains ten sites over the three clusters covering 115 hectares 280 acres in total 60 Industrial heritage EditAfter more than 2 000 years of industrial activity as a result of abundant minerals such as salt and coal 61 62 the chemical industry of the Northeast England is today spread across the whole of the region 63 with pharmaceuticals being primarily produced in the north of the region speciality and fine chemicals spread across the middle of the region and commodity chemicals and petrochemicals on Teesside These companies are members of the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster NEPIC The early chemical industry in this region however was primarily Tyneside based and associated with the manufacture of soap and glass The most important chemical activity in the 18th and 19th centuries was the manufacture of alkali to make soap which was when mixed with lime and sand and used to make glass 64 The effects of the industrial revolution could be seen through an economy dominated by iron and steel coal mining and shipbuilding Rationalisation of chemical firms in 1891 left only four works on Tyneside 64 Alkali manufacturing Edit Friars Goose Alkali Works had the highest chimney in England to disperse hydrochloric acid fumes Before the industrial revolution alkali was mostly used to aid the bleaching process of cloth As the industrial revolution took hold increasing demand for alkali came from higher production of dyestuffs and bleach In 1798 John Losh and the Earl of Dundonald took out a lease for a rich supply of brine pumped from a nearby coal mine the Walker pit becoming the supplier of raw material for The Losh Wilson amp Bell Alkali works The works were established at Walker on Tyne in 1807 and bleaching powder manufacture began there in 1830 Losh Brothers soon manufactured half the soda in England By 1814 the Leblanc process of making alkali from common salt was introduced to Britain Alkali works using this process opened at Tyne Dock 1822 Felling shore Tyneside 1826 Friars Goose Gateshead 1828 and again on Felling Shore in 1834 Such works also produced soda alum and Epsom salts The river frontage at South Shore of the River Tyne at Gateshead was one of the main locations for the chemical industry such that in the 19th century which led to a cluster of iron soap and alkali manufacturing 65 By 1828 the alkali works had a large problem controlling emissions of hydrochloric acid fumes which devastated the neighbouring countryside One solution was to build tall chimneys to drive the fumes further away and in 1833 the tallest chimney in England was built at the Friars Goose Alkali Works 64 66 The passing of the Alkali Act of 1863 in the UK Parliament brought about a further reduced pollution from these processes and was the first industrial environmental legislation to come into practice globally Salt making Edit Salt making in and around Greatham between Hartlepool and Billingham had been important in Roman and medieval times 67 68 and salt was also produced on Wearside from the 1580s but by the 16th century the industry had been eclipsed by South Shields on the Tyne 69 In 1894 the industry returned to Greatham with the establishment of the Greatham Salt and Brine Company by George Weddell The works was later purchased by the famous salt making company Cerebos in 1903 By the mid 20th century Cerebos was owned by the food conglomerate Rank Hovis McDougall and the factory closed in 2002 70 Glass Edit Glass manufacture has been an important industry in the Northeast of England since stained glass glaziers worked on the Wearmouth and Jarrow monasteries in 674 AD 71 72 Sunderland and Tyneside were noted for glass making between the 17th and 19th centuries 73 In 1827 about two fifths of all English glass was made in the Tyneside area and in 1845 South Shields was making more plate glass than anywhere else in England Sunderland was also rising to prominence as a glass making centre with James Hartley s Wear Glass Works opening in 1836 74 and by 1865 one third of the sheet glass in England was supplied by his Sunderland works The Candlish Glass Bottleworks was the largest in Europe managed by John CandlishWilliam Beilby produced decorative glass items in Newcastle during the mid 1700s Coal mining Edit Wynyard Park circa 1880 now a hotel Wynyard Hall Coal mining was one of the first industrial activities in Northeast England because the region was fortunate to have shallow seams of coal near the coast which meant that material could be transported in and out by sea 75 This led to the growth of ports in Sunderland Newcastle Teesport Middlesbrough Seaham Hartlepool and Blyth The energy from coal underpinned the development of many of the industries around these ports As discussed in the classic historical review of Victorian Cities by Asa Briggs Middlesbrough was developed as a port downstream of Yarm and Stockton to take bigger coal ships 76 The Northumberland Durham coalfield was one of the earliest coal mining areas to be worked in the country with the Romans extracting coal here which caused the area to become an important source of coal in the 13th and 14th centuries 77 Many current towns and villages across the region were originally settlements set up for the coal miners For example Seaham is a port community that was developed to handle output of the coal mining interests of Charles William Vane Tempest Stewart the 3rd Marquis of Londonderry a military leader and business man who became one of the UK s richest men due to his coal mining developments 78 79 The Marquis built his business interests using the inherited wealth of his wife Francis Anne The Marquis also built one of the country s finest country houses in the region as a palace for his family and his royal connections It is called Wynyard Hall 80 London was one of the places which received coal from the area and there are references to shipments of coal being sent to the capital for example 526 cauldrons of coal from Tyneside to London in 1376 for smiths involved in building Windsor Castle Before the growth of mining companies the coal from the North East was often sent to London using monks The coal was often called sea coal because it often washed up from undersea outcrops on the Northumbrian coast This could explain the name Se coles Lane in London 75 It also led to the colloquial phrase taking coals to Newcastle meaning why take something to a place that already has an excess of it Improvements in technology meant equipment could be built to go deeper than ever before One example was the High Main seam at Walker Colliery on Tyneside which became one of the deepest coal mines in the world thanks to large engine cylinders which helped drain the mine 81 Other mining developments from this region include water level and ventilation techniques introduced by John Buddle who also helped to introduce the miner s safety lamp which was invented here by Stephenson and Davy Miners in the cage ready for their descent Monkwearmouth Colliery 1993 Sir Humphry Davy after contemplating a communication he had received from Reverend Dr Robert Gray Rector of Bishopwearmouth later Bishop of Bristol regarding the problem of gas in mines took up the challenge of solving the problem of providing light in fire damp ridden collieries He started the work with several days of discussions with John Buddle the overseer at Wallsend Colliery other colliery owners and finally the Reverend John Hodgson Vicar of Jarrow Davy also collected samples of fire damp before returning to his laboratory in London Two designs of his lamps emerged and were tested at the most hazardous pits in the country then at Newcastle upon Tyne and Whitehaven in Cumberland and were a resounding success He later published his paper on The safety lamp for coal mines and some researches on flame in 1818 which made underground coal mines much more safe George Stephenson a colliery engineer at Killingworth Main Colliery also invented a safety lamp which was successfully tested on 21 October 1815 This became known as the Geordie lamp As a result some in the Northeast then tried to challenge the delivery of some Ceremonial Plate to Davy but the Davy Lamper s won the day and on 25 September 1817 a dinner service as presented to Davy from the coal owners at the Queen s Head in Newcastle Davy declined to take out a patent on his lamp design effectively giving it to the nation and the world s coal miners 82 The moment when the new safety lamp was first tested was recorded by John Buddle in a report from the Select Committee on Accidents in Mines on 4 September 1835 I first tried the lamp in an explosive mixture on the surface and then took it to the mine it is impossible for me to express my feelings at the time when I first suspended the lamp in the mine and saw it red hot I said to those around me We have at last subdued this monster fire damp With some describing it as one of the most significant moments in the industrialization of the world 83 As an example of the many coal mines colloquially known as pits that were created in the Northeast s Monkwearmouth Colliery or Wearmouth Colliery was a large deep pit that went out under the North Sea It was located on the north bank of the River Wear and was the largest pit in Sunderland and one of the most important in County Durham The mine opened in 1835 and was the last to remain operating in the Durham Coalfield with the last shift leaving the pit on 10 December 1993 and ending over 800 years of commercial underground coal mining in the region 84 The Colliery site has been cleared to make way for the Sunderland A F C s Stadium of Light which opened in July 1997 The mine is commemorated by a large sculpture of a miners lamp at the entrance to the stadium The Durham Coalfield remains a national resource for the UK economy today and for the future Most of the mines in the region were closed during the years of UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher see UK miners strike 1984 1985 however several large open cast coal mines are still operational in the region Today companies like Five Quarter are investigating the use of the latest technology for underground coal gasification to access the Durham Coalfield reserves Professor Paul Younger of Newcastle University in 2011 reported 85 that Around 75 per cent of the coal in the North East is still underground even though we have been mining it on an industrial scale longer than anyone else in the world Previously a lot of this coal was too deep for conventional mining or too far off shore Even today this resource this could never be exploited by conventional means but the technology to harness that resource has now become cost effective Accessing these reserves is of particular importance to the local chemical industry 86 Shipbuilding Edit Shipbuilding was once one of this region s largest industrial sectors Ships were built on the River Wear at Sunderland from at least 1346 and on the River Tees at Stockton from at least 1470 87 with the Northeast of England more generally being the birthplace of some of the world s greatest vessels This was recognised in 2013 with the regions shipbuilding heritage and global impact being recognized by UNESCO and placed on their Memory of the World Register ranking the regions shipbuilding heritage alongside iconic items such as the Domesday Book in terms of historical importance 88 Wood to iron and steel Edit The early ships were built of wood but in the 19th century there was a move towards building ships of iron then steel Ships were built across the region especially along Tyneside in Jarrow and Wearside in Sunderland and also in smaller ports like Blyth Whitby and Hartlepool Sunderland s early development was due to coal but it later transitioned to become the largest shipbuilding town in the world 89 giving the town its fame The first recorded shipbuilder was Thomas Menville at Hendon in 1346 90 By 1790 Sunderland was building around nineteen ships per year making it the most important shipbuilding centre in the United Kingdom By 1840 there were 65 shipyards such that over 150 wooden vessels were built at Sunderland in 1850 At this time 2 025 shipwrights worked in the town and some 2 000 others were employed in related industries Sunderland s first iron ships were built from 1852 and wooden shipbuilding ceased here in 1876 Sunderland shipbuilders included Austin and Son William Pickersgill and William Doxford 87 It was between 1790 and 1805 that Thomas Haw of Stockton began building ships for the Napoleonic wars Shipbuilding did not begin in Middlesbrough until 1833 when a wooden sailing ship called The Middlesbro was built Teesside s first iron ship was built in Thornaby in 1854 it was a screw steamer called The Advance and Teesside s first steel ship was Little Lucy built in 1858 One famous Teesside built ship was the 377 foot 115 m long Talpore built by Pearse and Co of Stockton in 1860 It was a troop ship for the River Indus and was the world s largest river steamer at the time 91 An archive of the ships built on Teesside has been created 92 In Hartlepool Thomas Richardson of Castle Eden and John Parkin of Sunderland established a shipyard at Old Hartlepool in 1835 and built The Castle Eden ship The shipbuilding company of William Gray was established here in 1862 and Gray became one of the most influential men in the town He was the first mayor of West Hartlepool in 1887 William Gray shipbuilders won the Blue Ribband prize for maximum output in 1878 1882 1888 1895 1898 and 1900 The yard closed in 1961 93 RMS Mauretania on its Tyneside builder s ways before launch in 1906 On Tyneside Charles Mark Palmer born in South Shields established a yard at Jarrow in 1851 and built its first iron collier The John Bowes in the following year It was the first ever seagoing screw collier and was built for John Bowes of Barnard Castle for shipping coal to London Palmer was also famed for building the first rolled armour plates for warships in 1854 William Smith and Co launched the 1 600 ton Blenheim in 1848 W G Armstrong the famous northern engineer acquired an interest in the Tyneside shipbuilding firm of Mitchells in 1882 and the company of W G Armstrong Mitchell and Co was formed The yard built battleships as well as a ship called Gluckauf which was arguably the world s first oil tanker It was launched by the yard in 1886 Scotsman Charles Mitchell started building ships at Walker on Tyne in 1852 and purchased a 6 5 acre 2 6 ha site at Wallsend in 1873 to soak up excess orders from his Walker shipyard The new yard failed financially and was handed to his brother in law Charles Swan Charles and his brother Henry were directors of the Wallsend Slipway Company a repair yard established by Mitchell in 1871 In 1878 Charles arranged a partnership with Sunderland shipbuilder George Hunter but in 1879 Charles died after falling overboard from a channel steamer whilst returning from the Continent with his wife Hunter went into temporary partnership with Swan s wife before becoming Managing Director in 1880 Swan Hunters built their first steel ship at Wallsend in 1884 and their first oil tanker in 1889 Most early ships built at the Swan Hunter yard were smaller like colliers and barges but in 1898 it built its first ocean liner Ultonia with a further 21 liners being built between 1898 and 1903 The most famous ship ever launched there was undoubtedly Mauretania a transatlantic ocean liner that launched on 20 September 1906 The ship was 790 foot 240 m long with a Beam nautical of 88 ft 27 m and a gross register tonnage of 31 938 tons It carried 2 000 passengers on its maiden voyage on 16 November 1907 and won the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic a record held for 22 years 87 Maritime innovation Edit A major pioneering innovation in marine engineering was the steam turbine invented by Charles Algernon Parsons He patented the first steam turbine on Tyneside in 1884 Parsons born in Ireland in 1854 was the youngest son of the Earl of Rosse and a keen inventor who was a junior partner in the Tyneside engineering firm of Clarke Chapman In 1894 Parsons Marine Turbine Company launched Turbinia the first ship to be powered by electric turbines She can be still be seen and boarded at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne 94 20th century decline Edit Shipyard closures in the 20th century took place during economic slumps and occurred in two phases between 1909 1933 and 1960 1993 Early closures included Smiths Dock at North Shields in 1909 which became a ship repair yard Armstrongs of Elswick in 1921 Richardson Duck of Stockton 1925 Priestman s of Sunderland 1933 and Palmers of Jarrow and Hebburn 1933 There were 28 North East closures in this period of which 14 were on the Tyne 7 on the Wear 6 on the Tees and 1 at Hartlepool Six shipyards closed in the 1960s including W Gray of Hartlepool 1961 Short Brothers of Sunderland 1964 and The Blyth Shipbuiding Company 1966 There were five closures in the region in the 1970s including the Furness yard at Haverton Hill near Stockton in 1979 87 Science and engineering Edit Tyne Bridge built by Middlesbrough Company Dorman Long The coal and shipbuilding industry that once dominated the North East suffered a marked decline during the second half of the 20th century Tyneside is now re inventing itself as an international centre of art culture and through The Centre For Life scientific research especially in healthcare and biotechnology Newcastle University is now a leading institution in the development of stem cell technology being the first in the United Kingdom and the second institution in Europe to obtain a licence to do such work 95 As with the rest of the region Sunderland suffered economic decline during the last century but is now becoming an important area for quaternary industry bioscience computing and high tech industries The economy of Sunderland is now dominated by the Nissan s European car manufacturing facility and supply chain which is also leading that company s development of electric vehicles 96 The economy of Teesside continues to be largely based on the petrochemical commodity chemical and steel industries that form a significant part of the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster NEPIC but newer industries such as offshore engineering and digital computing particularly in the field of Game design have emerged from Teesside University 97 Northumberland although largely rural and an important tourist location with its castles beaches and history has a nationally significant concentration of pharmaceutical manufacturing companies around Cramlington and Prudhoe 98 The county has also seen a huge investment into the creation of the UKs largest reservoir Kielder Water enabling the Northeast to attract more industry Kielder forest around the reservoir is known to have the darkest night sky in England 99 making it an ideal location for both professional and amateur astronomers The City of Durham with its highly regarded University Castle and Cathedral attracts many tourists and also a significant number of knowledge intensive businesses KIBS in architecture engineering technology and measurement science At Sedgefield in County Durham Netpark is home to the Centre for Process Innovation s Printable Electronics Technology Centre a nationally important centre for the development of printed electronics and a number of other emerging electronics companies such as Kromek Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge Today the members of the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster NEPIC represent about one third of the regional industrial economy The NEPIC is constituted by commodity chemical petrochemical speciality chemical pharmaceutical biotechnology polymer renewable material and renewable energy companies and the associated supply chains The Teesside industry is located on three large chemical sites at Wilton Billingham and Seal Sands at the mouth of the River Tees and Teesport the third largest port in the UK and the tenth in Western Europe and is important logistical infrastructure supporting the commodity chemical and steel members of NEPIC In the 21st century PD Ports owners of Teesport have been developing it as a Port Centric Logistical Centre This strategy has seen a number of significant importing and distribution facilities for the north of the UK being built here including distribution centres for the distribution operations of Asda Walmart and Tesco supermarket chains 100 NEPIC has two offices in the region one in the north in Sunderland serving the pharmaceutical and speciality chemical industries on Tyneside and in south Northumberland and one in the south at Wilton near Redcar serving the commodity chemical and steel industry of Teesside and operating amongst several process sector and supply chain companies that work out of the process industry research centre The Wilton Centre one of Europe s largest technical development laboratory facilities The head office of the Centre for Process Innovation part of the UK s High Value Manufacturing Catapult is based in this multi occupancy technical development centre along with their pioneering National Industrial Biotechnology Facility 101 102 Innovations Edit This region has a strong history in technological innovation The friction match was invented in Stockton on Tees in 1826 by John Walker George Stephenson 9 June 1781 12 August 1848 was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public inter city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives Renowned as the father of railways 103 George Stephenson was born in Wylam Northumberland 9 3 miles 15 0 km west of Newcastle upon Tyne Sir Joseph Wilson Swan 31 October 1828 27 May 1914 was a British physicist and chemist from Sunderland County Durham now the City of Sunderland He is most famous for inventing an incandescent light bulb before its invention by the American Thomas Edison Swan first demonstrated the light bulb at a lecture the Literary and Philosophical Society and Miners Institute on Mosley Street Newcastle upon Tyne on 18 December 1878 Mosley Street Newcastle upon Tyne is reputed to be the first street in the world to be lit by electric light 104 Turbinia Charles Algernon Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1884 and having foreseen its potential to power ships he set up the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company with five associates in 1893 To develop this he had the experimental vessel Turbinia built in a light design of steel by the firm of Brown and Hood based at Wallsend on Tyne He also pioneered in the field of electricity generation establishing the Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company in 1889 The company opened the first power station in the world to generate electricity using turbo generators in 1890 at Forth Banks in Newcastle William George Armstrong 1st Baron Armstrong CB FRS 26 November 1810 27 December 1900 was an effective Tyneside industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing empire He was responsible for the development of the hydraulic crane and many military armaments His house at Cragside Northumberland was the first in the world to be lit by hydro electricity using incandescent lamps provided by the inventor Joseph Swan In 1936 the first commercially viable production of acrylic safety glass Perspex began by ICI Acrylics and the material is still manufactured in the region by Lucite International now part of Mitsubishi Corporation During the Second World War acrylic glass was used for submarine periscopes windshields canopies and gun turrets for airplanes 105 Shortages in raw materials and price pressures have led to innovation by Lucite who developed their patented Alpha Technology in this region This technology is now the leading technology used in the manufacture of acrylics around the world It uses new feedstock s and has a cost advantage of 40 over conventional processing methods 106 Newcastle University was the first in the UK and the second in Europe to receive a licence to perform research on stem cells and is a leading centre for such research today Dr Karim Nayernia was the first to isolate spermatagonial stem cells at this University Many new healthcare developments have arisen from this stem cell expertise in the region Today the region has five universities with a number of research departments Durham University Newcastle University Northumbria University University of Sunderland and Teesside University which have a portfolio of many innovative businesses that have spun out of their research and teaching departments 107 Media EditThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources North East England news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message BBC Broadcasting Centre Newcastle Local media includes Regional television is provided by the BBC North East and Cumbria which broadcasts the regional evening Look North programme from Spital Tongues in Newcastle Its commercial rival ITV Tyne Tees amp Border broadcasts the evening programme ITV News Tyne Tees from Gateshead BBC Radios Newcastle and Tees National radio comes from Bilsdale on the North York Moors for Teesside Pontop Pike in County Durham for Tyne and Wear and Chatton near Wooler for Northumberland These transmitters are also the main television transmitters Commercial radio stations such as Metro Radio Heart North East formally Real Radio Capital North East formerly Galaxy Smooth North East TFM Greatest Hits Radio Teesside formally called Magic then TFM 2 Greatest Hits Radio North East formally called Magic then Metro 2 Radio and Sun FM Digital radio comes from the Bauer Tyne amp Wear and Bauer Teesside multiplexes There are also Nova Radio North East Radio Hartlepool and Spark FM community radio stations Regional newspapers include the Evening Chronicle Sunderland Echo The Journal Evening Gazette Shields Gazette Hartlepool Mail The Northern Echo and the Darlington and Stockton Times There are also free publications such as The Ferryhill Chapter Bishop Press The Hartlepool Post and Shildon Town Crier Transport EditRail Edit Commuter rail services in the region Darlington Station East Coast Main Line ECML calls at Newcastle Durham and Darlington with fast connections to London and Edinburgh In May 2018 the UK Government announced that the line was to be re nationalized for the second time since privatisation in 1997 108 Durham Coast Line connects Tyne and Wear as well as Tees Valley with the main line London North Eastern Railway serves the full length of the ECML and operates most of the stations on the route Grand Central links the region with London since December 2007 It does not have electric trains and uses the Northallerton Eaglescliffe Line and Durham Coast Line Local services along these and most other local routes in the North East are provided by Northern based in Manchester TransPennine Express also based in Manchester have long distance services from the region via Scarborough and West Yorkshire to Manchester The Tyne and Wear Metro is a light rail network which serves the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear s centres as well as at Newcastle Airport and stadiums such as the St James Park the Stadium of Light and Gateshead International Road Edit Angel of the North seen while entering Tyneside See also Transport in Tyne and Wear and Tees Valley The North East s main arterial carriageway is the A1 road which mirrors the East Coast Main Line s course In County Durham this road is of motorway standard and is known as the A1 M and in March 2018 a section of A1 M was opened between Barton and Leeming Bar in North Yorkshire providing a continuous link to the motorway network in the rest of England However the A1 is still an all purpose road in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland and is controversially still single carriageway north of Morpeth despite being the main trunk route connecting Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne and having a terrible safety record citation needed A second north south dual carriageway link is provided by the A19 which heads north from Thirsk accessed via the A168 from the A1 M at Dishforth serving Teesside Peterlee and Sunderland before heading through the Tyne Tunnel to meet the A1 at Seaton Burn The Tyne Tunnel was opened as a single carriageway in 1967 with a second tunnel opening in February 2011 for dual ing The course of the A1 through Tyne and Wear has changed twice during the late 20th century Originally passing through the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne then in 1977 it was re routed to the east of the city through the Tyne Tunnel In 1993 a second rerouting occurred along Newcastle Western Bypass west of the city Each of these resulted in standing roads to be renumbered the A1 forms the boundary and roads between beginning with 1 and 6 The A66 Tees Valley and A68 often following the Roman road Dere Street are cross country roads over the North Pennines The A69 heads west along the Tyne Valley to Carlisle in Cumbria Sea Edit Queen of Scandinavia berthed at North Shields The ferry terminal at North Shields is accessed via the A187 from the Tyne Tunnel DFDS operate two ferries a day to Amsterdam and formerly one a day on the Stavanger Haugesund Bergen route Air Edit The two main airports are Newcastle Airport located north of the city near Ponteland and Teesside International Airport located east of Darlington Great North Air Ambulance The region s population is served by a charitable service known as the Great North Air Ambulance for those who need rapid transfer to a hospital or medical assistance in difficult or remote locations Transport policy Edit This section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information May 2020 Long term planning for transport in the region has involved the development of sub regional strategies This planning also needs to take into account region wide transport schemes such as those carried out by the Highways Agency and Network Rail 109 These activities in the United Kingdom now fall into the remit of the Local Enterprise Partnerships LEPs which in the Northeast of England are Tees valley Unlimited and the North East LEP 110 Bodies such as the Northeast Chamber of Commerce NECC and the Institution of Civil Engineers ICE are providers of significant practical insights to policy makers 111 112 Within the region the local transport authorities plan for the future by producing Local Transport Plans LTP which outline their strategies policies and implementation programmes 113 The most recent LTP is that for the period 2006 11 In the North East region the following transport authorities have published their LTP online the 5 Tees Valley authorities 114 115 116 117 118 Durham 119 Tyne and Wear 120 and Northumberland 121 Education EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources North East England news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message Main article Lists of schools in England North East of England Primary Edit There are over 250 nursery primary schools in the County Durham area of the north east which range from schools with their own nursery to schools that are either infant only or junior only 122 Areas such as Gosforth have first schools which have neither years 5 nor 6 and therefore educate children up to the age of 8 and 9 Secondary Edit Hummersknott School near Darlington The North East education system consists largely of comprehensive schools but a number of private and independent schools are found in Newcastle Sunderland Durham Darlington Stockton and in particular Northumberland in 2014 a number of the regions schools were in the top 20 of schools as measured by SSAT the UK organisation for school improvement and collaboration and have been awarded an SSAT Educational Outcomes Award recognising their successes These schools are Burnside Business amp Enterprise College in Newcastle Castle View Enterprise Academy in Sunderland Emmanuel College in Gateshead Greenfield Community College in Newton Aycliffe Northumberland Church of England Academy in Ashington and The North Durham Academy in Stanley 123 The awards recognised high attainment and outstanding continuous improvement The schools in the top 20 for high attainment in GCSE exams were Burnside Business and Enterprise College and Northumberland Church of England AcademyThe region s secondary school attendance is the lowest in England at around 125 000 with the next lowest in the East Midlands Truancy at its schools is a mixed picture It has the second highest overall rate for urban areas after Yorkshire and the Humber but the lowest rate in England in its rural areas Middlesbrough has the region s highest rate with 7 2 persistent truants which is the second highest rate in England after Manchester 7 3 Next is Newcastle upon Tyne with 6 4 then the former district of Wansbeck with 6 3 At General Certificate of Secondary Education GCSE level the region s performance is similar to that of other largely urban areas although its results are generally below the national average Middlesbrough tends to perform the worst and to produce results well below the national average Local education authorities LEAs in the North East have improved at GCSE in recent years North Tyneside performed the best in 2011 followed by Gateshead Northumberland and Darlington No LEA in the North East was above the 2011 national GCSE average South Tyneside was the lowest for the English Baccalaureate followed by Middlesbrough and Hartlepool Gateshead and North Tyneside were the highest and Gateshead was the only LEA above the national average for this measure The region s parochial schools tend to perform better at GCSE these include St Thomas More Catholic School Blaydon Emmanuel College Gateshead All Saints Academy Ingleby Barwick The English Martyrs School Hartlepool St Bede s Catholic School Lanchester and the Carmel College Darlington Other regional schools that perform well include Whitley Bay High School Marden High School in Cullercoats the Macmillan Academy in Middlesbrough Park View School in Chester le Street and the Hurworth School near Darlington Northumberland schools have a three tier system 12 year olds go into high school instead of 11 year olds going into a secondary school Dame Allan s Schools Royal Grammar School NRGS Barnard Castle School and Durham School are all members of The Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference The Central Newcastle High School and the Royal Grammar School were named as among the nation s top 100 independent schools in 2006 Durham School is considered to be one of the oldest schools in the UK and its Old Boys were the founding members of the original Newcastle Falcons Rugby club Mowden Hall School a selective day and boarding prep school in Northumberland is another independent school In the region school children from Northumberland are most likely to attend university followed by Stockton on Tees and North Tyneside Some secondary schools in the region are also sixth forms colleges College Edit This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources North East England news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message QE Sixth Form College in Darlington There are sixteen further education colleges in the region 124 The main such colleges are East Durham College Newcastle College New College Durham Darlington College Gateshead College Bishop Auckland College Stockton Riverside College Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College Hartlepool College of Further Education Middlesbrough College Northern School of Art and Design and Sunderland College citation needed North East LEAs at A level are improving but produce results below those of other areas of England Sunderland performed the best in 2011 with consistently good results followed by Hartlepool and Darlington which are above the national average and unrepresentative of most areas in the North East Darlington s Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College is one of the highest rated colleges in England The area s Catholic schools all do reasonably well at A level Stockton on Tees Redcar and Cleveland and Newcastle were also above England s average Newcastle does significantly better at A level than at GCSE with consistent improvement while Gateshead does much worse at A level than GCSE and produced the second lowest A level results in the region in 2009 The worst results at A level were from Middlesbrough Durham South Tyneside and Gateshead South Tyneside had in previous years been consistently the region s worst performing LEA at A level Many of region s colleges provide higher education validated by a university University Edit Newcastle University The North East is has five universities Durham University Newcastle University both in the Russell Group Northumbria University in Newcastle Teesside University Middlesbrough and Darlington and the University of Sunderland See also Edit North East England portalKingdom of Northumbria Bernicia Northumbrian music Northumbrian smallpipes English of Northumbria List of urban areas in 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