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The Country Park was created on the former sites of the Rising Sun Colliery and the Scaffold Hill Isolation Hospital. | The Country Park was created on the former sites of the Rising Sun Colliery and the Scaffold Hill Isolation Hospital. | ||
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| + | The Rising Sun Colliery produced coal from 1914 until 1969. The original shaft was southeast of Rising Sun Hill with secondary shafts near the Visitors’ Centre. After the colliery closed, the pit heap was landscaped into Rising Sun Hill. | ||
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| + | Scaffold Hill Isolation Hospital opened was built to care for patients suffering from infectious diseases such as Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria. By the 1950s, isolation hospitals were no longer needed and the hospital became Holystone Hospital and was used to care for the elderly until it closed in 1986. | ||
===Areas of Interest=== | ===Areas of Interest=== | ||
Revision as of 19:48, 7 February 2008
Overview
The Rising Sun Country Park is situated off the A191 Gosforth to Whitley Bay road. It comprises Swallow Pond, a large lake formed by subsidence of former mine workings, a smaller pond, areas of mature and young trees, agricultural land and rough grass covering remains of the former pit heap.
Birds
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Birds you can see here include:
Mute Swan, Canada Goose, Eurasian Wigeon, Gadwall, Eurasian Teal, Mallard, Northern Shoveler, Common Pochard, Tufted Duck, Common Goldeneye, Ruddy Duck, Common Pheasant, Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Grey Heron, Common Moorhen, Common Coot, Northern Lapwing, Eurasian Curlew, Black-headed Gull, Mew Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Common Wood Pigeon, Eurasian Collared Dove, Common Swift, Eurasian Skylark, Sand Martin, Barn Swallow, Northern House Martin, Meadow Pipit, Winter Wren, Hedge Accentor, European Robin, Eurasian Blackbird, Fieldfare, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Common Whitethroat, Common Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Goldcrest, Long-tailed Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Black-billed Magpie, Eurasian Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Common Starling, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, European Greenfinch, European Goldfinch, Eurasian Linnet, Reed Bunting
Other Wildlife
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Site Information
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History and Use
The Country Park was created on the former sites of the Rising Sun Colliery and the Scaffold Hill Isolation Hospital.
The Rising Sun Colliery produced coal from 1914 until 1969. The original shaft was southeast of Rising Sun Hill with secondary shafts near the Visitors’ Centre. After the colliery closed, the pit heap was landscaped into Rising Sun Hill.
Scaffold Hill Isolation Hospital opened was built to care for patients suffering from infectious diseases such as Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria. By the 1950s, isolation hospitals were no longer needed and the hospital became Holystone Hospital and was used to care for the elderly until it closed in 1986.
Areas of Interest
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Access and Facilities
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Contact Details
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