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Lobley Hill, Gateshead — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Lobley Hill is a district of Gateshead holding the site of Washing Wells Roman Fort, All Saints Church and Cox Close House.
About Lobley Hill
Where to stay in Lobley Hill
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
The hill has little to rent. Lobley Hill is housing first, and a stay makes sense mainly for a traveller with a car who wants quiet streets near All Saints Church and a short road back into Gateshead at the end of the day. Cox Close House stands among those streets.
Most visitors book in Gateshead itself.
About Lobley Hill
What are the main landmarks in Lobley Hill?
A Roman fort tops the list. Washing Wells Roman Fort is recorded on the district's ground, and Saint Nicholas With Christ Church and All Saints Church give Lobley Hill two church dedications to set beside it. Cox Close House and the Dunston War Memorial complete the record, along with the site of the Ravensworth coalmill near Ravensworth Castle.
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What is the history of Lobley Hill?
Whickham parish came first. Lobley Hill belonged to that parish before it passed into the old County Borough of Gateshead and then into the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, a sequence of boundaries that settled where the district is counted. Washing Wells Roman Fort is older than all of that.
The site of the Ravensworth coalmill records worked ground near Ravensworth Castle, and the Dunston War Memorial stands for a much later act of remembrance.
Where is Lobley Hill?
The Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead holds Lobley Hill, in Tyne and Wear, on ground that belonged to the parish of Whickham before the borough lines were drawn.
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Updated September 2026