Official Name: | Camperdown |
Country: | England |
Region: | North East England |
Metropolitan Borough: | North Tyneside |
Metropolitan County: | Tyne and Wear |
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Camperdown is a village in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. Camperdown is just south of Burradon,[1] and the two villages are closely linked.[2] Both villages had coal mines.[2] Until 1974 it was in Northumberland.
On 1 April 1899 Camperdown became a separate civil parish being formed from Longbenton, on 1 April 1912 the parish was abolished and merged with Longbenton.[3] In 1911 the parish had a population of 918.[4] It is now in the unparished area of Longbenton.