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About Paddy Freeman's Park

Paddy Freeman is a popular park which has a bowling green, two tennis courts, a playground, a boating lake, a Model Boat Club and a cafe which is open in the summer months. There is plenty of seating throughout the park.The park is mainly grassed for informal leisure activities. with some shrubs and woodland plantations. The lake is used by the Heaton and District Model Power Boat Club who celebrated their 100th anniversary in 2010 and still a very active club today.

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Heaton Park

Heaton Park

1.9km from Paddy Freeman's Park

A majestic and beauitiful historic park in the heart of a thriving community packed with stunning variety of seasonal flowerbeds, shrubs and trees. The park has an excellent network of footpaths to explore, connecting the park to nearby Ouseburn Park, Armstrong Park and Jesmond Dene. It was one of the iconic attraction in this area and also It is a great place for a good walk.

The Town Moor

The Town Moor

2.02km from Paddy Freeman's Park

The Town Moor is an area of common land in Newcastle upon Tyne. It covers an area of around 1000 acres or 400ha, making it larger than Hyde Park combined with Hampstead Heath combined, and also larger than New York City's Central Park. The Town Moor reaches Spital Tongues and the city centre to the south, Gosforth to the north and Jesmond to the east.

Exhibition Park

Exhibition Park

2.04km from Paddy Freeman's Park

Exhibition Park is a beautiful park close to Newcastle City Centre complete with Victorian bandstand and small, boating lake home to swans and ducks. The park is home to numerous facilities including sports areas, a boating lake, playgrounds and a skatepark.

Great North Museum: Hancock

Great North Museum: Hancock

2.36km from Paddy Freeman's Park

The Great North Museum incorporates collections from the Hancock Museum and Newcastle University’s Museum of Antiquities, the Shefton Museum and the Hatton Gallery. it is a museum of natural history and ancient civilisations and most of its collections are owned by the Natural History Society of Northumbria, and it is managed by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums on behalf of Newcastle University.

Hatton Gallery

Hatton Gallery

2.44km from Paddy Freeman's Park

The Hatton Gallery was founded in 1925, by the King Edward VII School of Art, Armstrong College, Durham University, in honour of Richard George Hatton, a professor at the School of Art. It dedicated to enhancing the cultural and intellectual life of the Department of Art, the Colorado State University campus, and the vibrant communities of greater northern Colorado.

The Biscuit Factory

The Biscuit Factory

2.51km from Paddy Freeman's Park

The UK's largest independent commercial art, craft & design gallery founded in 2002 and located in the cultural quarter of Newcastle, Ouseburn. A former Victorian biscuit manufacturing warehouse, The Biscuit Factory underwent a sympathetic refurbishment, ensuring that many of the original and characterful facets of the building such as the beams and brickwork were maintained.

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Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in North East England. The county is bordered to the north by Northumberland, to the south by County Durham and to the east of the county lies the North Sea. It is the smallest county in North East England by area, but by far the largest in terms of population.

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