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Stay at Jurys Inn, Newcastle, England 3*** rating: Jurys Inn Newcastle is ideally located in the heart of Newcastle’s city centre. Just a short stroll from the main shopping and commercial centres, the Inn is perfectly placed whether you are visiting the city for business or pleasure. Jurys Inn Newcastle is perfectly located, right in the heart of one of the UK's most exciting cities. Newcastle has earned a reputation as a vibrant, diverse city, an excellent location in which to do business and is home to more than 4,000 businesses. Jurys Inn Newcastle is located just two minutes from Newcastle Central Station where you can catch a direct rail link to Newcastle International Airport. This Newcastle hotel is located close to the International Centre for Life, Central Station, Eldon Square and St James's Park football stadium. Jurys Inn Newcastle offers bright, spacious rooms, which can accommodate up to three adults or two adults and two children, while our fixed rate room pricing offers outstanding value for money.
Address: Scotswood Road, Newcastle, NE4 7JH, England.
Tel: (+44 191) 201 4400.
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What to See at Newcastle: Newcastle was named after the Norman castle in its centre, but traces its history back much earlier to the Romans. Traces of Hadrian's Wall exist alongside a medieval cathedral, impressive Victorian buildings (the legacy of its wealth from the industrial revolution) and the regenerated Quayside area. Newcastle has more listed buildings per square mile than almost any other city in the UK; Grey Street has just been voted the best street in Britain by Radio 4 listeners. Down by the river there is, of course, Newcastle's most famous symbol, the Tyne Bridge. Newcastle specializes in bridges - there are seven of them spanning the river. The magnificent Gateshead Millennium Bridge has captured the public's attention and won the Royal Institute of Architects' Building of the Year award.
About Newcastle: The Newcastle region has thousands of years of particularly colourful history with evidence of early settlement as long ago as 5000 BC. When the Romans arrived, in 43 AD, they found that Britain was a land of tribes and hill forts. The Newcastle region was part of the territory of the Brigantes, a tribe that was led by a woman called Cartimandua. The Romans held onto Britain until 410AD when the Goths of the east sacked Rome and troops were permanently withdrawn from Britain to defend the collapsing empire. Britons were left at the mercy of the invading Anglo-Saxons. From 430AD to 600AD Saxons from Germany colonised the south of England while Angles or Anglians from southern Denmark colonised the north and east. Northumbria, "North of the Humber" was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom formed by merging Bernicia, north of the Tees, with Deira to the south. Northumbria's first two kings were a Bernician called Aethelfrith and a Deiran called Edwin. Aethelfrith was a pagan, but Edwin became the North's first Christian king after baptism at York in 627AD. In the late 8th Century, Northumbria was plagued by weak leadership and collapsed into a state of anarchy caused in part by rivalry between the royal houses of Deira and Bernicia. From 737AD to 806AD, Northumbria had ten kings: three were murdered, five were expelled and two retired to become monks. This instability may well have encouraged the first Viking raiders to attack the Northumbrian coast from 793AD. Most people have heard of the Norman Conquest of 1066, but the Danish conquest of 866 made just as great an impact on the North. The Danes brought cultural, linguistic and political changes to the North and made southern Northumbria the Danish Kingdom of York which they divided into three 'ridings'. In Northern England, the Danes settled mainly in Yorkshire while the land north of the Tees remained largely Anglo-Saxon.
The New Castle which gave the city its name was constructed by the Normans in1080. Its keep and one of its gates still exist, though they are oddly separated from each other by the nineteenth-century railway tracks for which the rest of the castle was demolished to make way. Prior to the Norman Conquest the town was known as Monkchester. Pilgrims came to the Holy Well of Jesus' Mount, now part of Jesmond. One of the biggest shopping streets, Pilgrim Street, is so-called because of the popularity of the well. Newcastle's development as a major city owed much to its central role in the export of coal from the Northumberland coalfield - the phrase "carrying coals to Newcastle" proverbially denotes the act of bringing a particular commodity to a locality that has more than enough of it already. In the nineteenth century, shipbuilding and heavy engineering were central to the city's prosperity; and the city was a powerhouse of the nation's prosperity. Heavy industries declined in the second half of the twentieth century with office and retail employment now the city's staples,
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