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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Sting has set the story in the North East England town of Wallsend, where he was born.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2020

I went to the first Venom gig, in a church hall in Wallsend.

From The Guardian • May 16, 2019

A World Heritage site, the 73-mile wall stretched across the U.K. from what is now Wallsend in the east to its western end at Bowness-on-Solway.

From Fox News • Feb. 27, 2019

The coals I bought as Wallsend are not so.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 12, 1891 by Various

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