West Allotment is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the Metropolitian Borough of North Tyneside

North Tyneside

The Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside is a metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England and is part of the Tyneside conurbation. Its seat is Wallsend Town Hall....

. It is located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) inland of Whitley Bay

Whitley Bay

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 and approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north of The Tyne Tunnel

Tyne Tunnel

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. A mile or so north of West Allotment, the extensive built-up areas of North Tyneside change abruptly into green belt

Green Belt (UK)

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 stretching north into south east Northumberland

Northumberland

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West Allotment was originally a minning community. There is a War memorial situated on the old high street.

New housing estates

West Allotment used to comprise of only one housing estate,known to the local's as 'The Allotment', However in the late 1990's two new estates were constructed, Murrayfield and Holyfield, Holyfield is the larger of the two, Brookfield and Cloverfield are both classed as Holyfields although they are both detached from the original Holyfield estate. Brookfield and Cloverfield are linked together and Cloverfield is nearing completion.