FIELD HOUSE
Field House Apartment
Luxury self-catering accommodation in a small picturesque village, just a few miles from the beautiful Northumbrian coastline and within easy reach of the vibrant City of Newcastle.
Welcome to Field House
Field House offers a high standard self catering apartment in a small picturesque village located just a few miles from the beautiful Nothumbrian coastline and within easy reach of the vibrant City of Newcastle.We offer everything we would wish for ourselves in self catering accommodation and pride ourselves on being comfortable, spacious and accommodating. A feeling of being in the country but with all amenities close by.
Killingworth Village
Field House is located in the picturesque village of Old Killingworth, just a few miles from the beautiful Northumbrian coastline of Whitley Bay, Tynemouth and Seaton Sluice and within easy reach of the vibrant city centre of Newcastle upon Tyne with its shopping, bars , art galleries and museums
The first documentary reference to Killingworth dates from 1242 when it was held by Roger de Merlay III. There were 9 taxpayers there in 1296, 8 in 1312, and 16 tenements are listed with the names of the owners or occupiers in a detailed survey of the whole township carried out in 1373. In the mid 19th century Killingworth was still a long, 2-row village with two or three farms on the north side of the street, strung out to the west of the junction of the Backworth road with that to Long Benton. A terrace of possible miners' cottages had also been added by that time. Despite recent development it is still today identifiable as an early settlement, with a number of listed, 18th and 19th century, stone-built structures.
Killingworth Common Fields, enclosed in 1793, show evidence of medieval ridge and furrow cultivation features.
Killingworth Moor, at that time unenclosed, was used to hold race meetings in conjunction with the Town Moor until 1794, after which the meetings were moved to Gosforth (in 1882).
During the industrial age beginning in the late 18th century Killingworth became an important coalmining centre. A number of pits sprang up in the area opened along with brick and tile works, quarries and a saw mill. The collieries were was served by wagonways , one of the earliest of which served Killingworth colliery and possibly Bewick Pit, with its southern terminus at 'Killingworth Staithes', Wallsend where there were at least four coal drops.
The later history of Killingworth is mainly as a residential district, although other sites of cultural heritage importance are recorded there, including a World War Two period supply depot.
St John's Church
The village church was designed by Bassett Keeling of London, and is faced with local stone, with bands of pink sandstone from a local quarry. It is surrounded by elm and sycamore trees, and ministers to a wide age-group including young families.
