Cullercoats
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Cullercoats is an urban area of northwest England, now absorbed into the Tyneside conurbation sits between Tynemouth and Whitley Bay. There is an attractive sandy beach and the village is a popular destination for day-trippers.
The name is thought to derive from Dove (or Culver) Cotes.
Historically the village depended on fishing, there was also local coal mining in so called bell pits. The coal was used to fire salt pans (now long gone) on the field now known as the boat field.
An important local landmark: the Bay Hotel was demolished in 2005. It is notable for a period in the 1880's when it was home to the American watercolour artist Winslow Homer.
Cullercoats is interesting from an architectural perspective: There is a row of fishermans' cottages on Simpson Street which were preserved during the redevelopment of the village in the 1970s. Otherwise between the coast and the railway (now Metro) line are Victorian terraces. The land immediately on the other side was exists of long avenues of between the wars semi-detached houses. Another change can then be seen along the line of Broadway where the housing changes again to mixed semi-detached/detached 1970s and 1980s housing estates built around long winding roads and cul-de-sacs.
