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Currock Hill

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Currock Hill Farm geograph 2845287 by Robert Graham
Currock Hill Farm geograph 2845287 by Robert Graham

Currock Hill is a hill in Tyne and Wear, England, which at 259 m (850 ft) is the highest point in the county, and in the metropolitan borough of Gateshead.The name ‘currock’ comes from the Celtic word for a cairn or a stack of stones, a development of the word for a rock, carroc, and is still widely used in the North East.

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N 54.9275 ° E -1.8343 °
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NE17 7AZ
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Currock Hill Farm geograph 2845287 by Robert Graham
Currock Hill Farm geograph 2845287 by Robert Graham
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