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Wallsend

American  
[wawlz-end] / ˈwɔlzˌɛnd /

noun

  1. a city in Tyne and Wear, NE England, near the mouth of the Tyne River.

  2. a type of coal widely used in Great Britain, especially for domestic purposes.


Wallsend British  
/ ˈwɔːlzˌɛnd /

noun

  1. a town in NE England, in North Tyneside unitary authority, Tyne and Wear: situated on the River Tyne at the E end of Hadrian's Wall. Pop: 42 842 (2001)

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Probably the best players around the area joined Wallsend so that was good.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

He was born in Wallsend, England, in late June 1945.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

The River Tyne's most famous shipyard, Swan Hunter in Wallsend, shut in 1993.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025

"We didn't have any books in the house", he tells me by email, but "I was fortunate in the 60s to have had access to Wallsend library".

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025

He was now unloading some of the best Wallsend that ever came up the river, and would take care that the next half ton should not have an ounce of small in it.

From Pages from a Journal with Other Papers by Mark Rutherford

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