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Tennis
Fellside Road, Tennis Ground
54.943856, -1.686073
Whickham
Opened:
1900s
Closed:
c1950s
Redeveloped
Condition:
Home Teams/Clubs:
Last Updated:
8 Sept 2023
HER Description
NEHL - A tennis ground was situated adjacent to Fellside House in the west of Whickham from the 1900s until the 1950s. It was constructed in a vacant plot between the existing Fellside House and the new developments on Fellside Road leading to Burnopfield.
It was a fairly modest affair with no formal facilities, perhaps hinting it was a private site for the residents of Fellside Road next door. The ground had disappeared from maps surveyed after 1940 however there are indications on an aerial shot from 1956. A rectangular piece of ground seemingly adjoined to Fellside House appears extant.

Ordnance Survey, 1947

Ordnance Survey, 1956
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