Ouseburn

Mouth: Ouseburn, City of Newcastle

Source: Callerton, City of Newcastle

Length: 15.345km [1]

Catchment Area: 61.579km² [1]

Tributary Of: River Tyne

Etymology: Possible shared connection with likes of River Ouse, where Ouse is derived from Old English and Germanic origin. [2] The Old English ēa, is meaning to river.

Regions:

• North East

Counties:

• Tyne and Wear (Ceremonial)

• Northumberland (Historical)

Quick Trivia:

• As well as River Tyne, Ouse Burn has hidden tributaries underneath Newcastle-upon-Tyne. One is named the Sandyford Burn, which is located exactly where Ouse Burn culverts at Heaton Park, and Devil's Burn, which flows into the Ouse Burn at Vale House's approximate location. [3]

• In 1772, two bridges were present at the Ouse Burn; Glafs House Bridge (Hadrian's Wall Path today), and New Bridge (Byker Bank today). [4]

• A stream that stems off of the Ouse Burn flows into Gosforth Lake.

• Removing culverts has been proposed. [5]

The Ouse Burn emerges at Callerton, just outside the Newcastle International Airport, and flows by Woolsington with a widened channel. It continues its course near Fawdon eastward, and heads southward at Grange Park. It flows underneath the tracks for the Regent Centre and the South Gosforth METRO Station, to where it flows by the Jesmond Dene Valley and passes the St Mary's Chapel and under the Armstrong Bridge. At Jesmond, it culverts for a half mile under the City Stadium, and re-emerges at Byker and flows under the Byker Bridge. It then flows by Ouseburn, the area of the same name, and flows into its mouth at the River Tyne.

Course (Mouth to Source)

• Byker Bridge

• Byker Viaduct

• Culverts

• Ouseburn Viaduct

• Re-emerge

• Armstrong Bridge

• Craghall Dene