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9843_173	\|5\|\|L\|\|April 18, 1963\|\|1–3 \|\| \|\| align="left" \| @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) \|\| 1–4 \|-
9843_174	Awards and honors Art Ross Trophy: Gordie Howe Hart Memorial Trophy: Gordie Howe
9843_175	Gordie Howe, Right Wing, NHL First Team All-Star
9843_176	Terry Sawchuk, Goaltender, NHL Second Team All-Star
9843_177	References Red Wings on Hockey Database
9843_178	Detroit Detroit Detroit Red Wings seasons Detroit Red Wings Detroit Red Wings
9844_0	Ashington is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, with a population of 27,864 at the
9844_1	2011 Census. It was once a centre of the coal mining industry. The town is north of Newcastle upon
9844_2	Tyne, west of the A189 and bordered to the south by the River Wansbeck. The North Sea coast at
9844_3	Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is away.
9844_4	Many inhabitants have a distinctive accent and dialect known as Pitmatic. This varies from the
9844_5	regional dialect known as Geordie.
9844_6	History
9844_7	The name Ashington has the earlier orthography Essendene (today's "sh" rarely developed in writing
9844_8	for that phoneme) which has been referenced since 1170. This may have originated from a given name
9844_9	Æsc, not unknown among Saxon invaders who sailed from Northern Germany. If so he came to the
9844_10	Wansbeck and would have settled in this deep wooded valley near Sheepwash. The "de" in the early
9844_11	orthographies more strongly suggests dene, so ash dene - these trees would have lined it. In the
9844_12	1700s all that existed of Ashington was a small farm with a few dwellings around it.
9844_13	Coal mining
9844_14	The first evidence of mining is from bell-shaped pits and monastic mine workings discovered in the
9844_15	20th Century during tunnelling. Ashington developed from a small hamlet in the 1840s when the Duke
9844_16	of Portland built housing to encourage people escaping the Great Famine of Ireland to come and work
9844_17	at his nearby collieries. As in many other parts of Britain, "deep pit" coal mining in the area
9844_18	declined during the 1980s and 1990s leaving just one colliery, Ellington which closed in January
9844_19	2005. In 2006 plans for an opencast mine on the outskirts of the town were put forward, although
9844_20	many people objected to it. During the heyday of coal-mining, Ashington was considered to be the
9844_21	"world's largest coal-mining village". There is now a debate about whether Ashington should be
9844_22	referred to as a town or a village; if considered as a village it would be one of the largest
9844_23	villages in England.
9844_24	Growth of the town
9844_25	As coal mining expanded, more people left the countryside and settled in Ashington. This led the
9844_26	Ashington Coal Company to build parallel rows of colliery houses. Some newcomers came from as far
9844_27	as Cornwall to make use of their tin-mining skills.
9844_28	With the growing coal industry came the need for a railway link. Ashington was linked to the Blyth
9844_29	and Tyne Railway in the 1850s, and also to the East Coast Main Line near Ulgham (pronounced
9844_30	Uffham). The railway was used by passenger trains until the Beeching Axe in 1964 closed the railway
9844_31	station, called Hirst railway station, which had opened in 1872. The railway line runs south
9844_32	towards the steep-sided River Wansbeck valley, originally crossed by a wooden viaduct, which was
9844_33	replaced by today's steel-built Black Bridge.
9844_34	In 1913 the original Ashington Hospital was built. It was about 1/4 mile from the town centre. The
9844_35	hospital was expanded in the 1950s and '60s with large new wings. This hospital was closed in the
9844_36	mid 1990s and replaced by the new Wansbeck General Hospital which opened on a green-field site on
9844_37	the eastern edge of the town with better links to the A189 Spine Road. The last of the old
9844_38	buildings were demolished in 2004.
9844_39	Traditionally the area to the east of the railway was called Hirst and that to the west was
9844_40	Ashington proper. Although collectively called Ashington, both halves had their own park: Hirst
9844_41	Park (opened in 1915) in the east and the People's Park in the west.
9844_42	The colliery-built houses followed a grid plan. The streets in the Hirst End running north to south
9844_43	were named after British trees, such as Hawthorn Road, Beech Terrace, and Chestnut Street. The
9844_44	east-west running streets were numbered avenues, starting with First Avenue near the town centre,
9844_45	finishing at Seventh Avenue towards the southern end. After the 1920s houses in Ashington were
9844_46	built by the council and were most often semi-detached houses, such as Garden City Villas. These
9844_47	occupied much of the fields in the Hirst area. New estates were built in different areas. The
9844_48	biggest building programme was in the late 1960s and saw Ashington extend south from Seventh Avenue
9844_49	opposite the Technical College towards North Seaton and south eastwards towards the A189. Some of
9844_50	the houses at the north end of Alexandra Road were private homes. During this building programme
9844_51	several new schools were built, for example Coulson Park, Seaton Hirst Middle. Community shops and
9844_52	a social club (the Northern) were built off Fairfield Drive. The late 1970s and early 1980s saw
9844_53	construction of Nursery Park opposite the North Seaton Hotel. The late 1980s and 1990s saw the
9844_54	building of the Wansbeck Estate between the River Wansbeck and Green Lane as well as the large
9844_55	Fallowfield Estate.
9844_56	In the late 1960s the area by the railway station was developed into Wansbeck Square, housing a
9844_57	supermarket, council offices and a public library, built partly over the railway line.
9844_58	In 1981 the Woodhorn Pit closed and its chimney was demolished. In the late 1980s this became a
9844_59	museum. In 1988 Ashington Pit was closed and is now occupied by a business park. In the early 2000s
9844_60	maisonette flats in various parts of Hirst were demolished and parts of the Moorhouse and
9844_61	Woodbridge estate opposite Woodhorn Pit were demolished.
9844_62	The railway was used until recently by the Alcan Aluminium plant, to transport coal to its adjacent
9844_63	power station in the nearby town of Lynemouth. The plant closed in late 2015. The line was put in
9844_64	use again from mid-2017 to transport materials to Lynemouth, for the conversion of the coal-fired
9844_65	power station to produce power from biomass. The Northumberland Line project is reopening a railway
9844_66	passenger service by 2024.
9844_67	Ashington Urban District was created in 1896, covering part of the parish of Ashington and
9844_68	Sheepwash and part of the parish of Bothal Demesne, and incorporating Hirst. In 1900 the urban
9844_69	district was enlarged to include North Seaton; then Sheepwash, most of Woodhorn and the remainder
9844_70	of Bothal Demesne in 1935. The urban district survived until 1974, when under the Local Government
9844_71	Act 1972 it became part of the Wansbeck district.
9844_72	In October 2008, plans to opencast 2m tonnes of coal in Ashington were approved. UK Coal's plans
9844_73	which were first submitted in 2005, would create 60+ jobs.
9844_74	Geography
9844_75	Ashington is in south east Northumberland, which is a largely urban area adjacent to Newcastle.
9844_76	Most of the area is of flat ground formed during the Carboniferous period when ancient tropical
9844_77	swamp forests were buried and formed the coal seams that have given this area its significance. The
9844_78	local geology is of yellow sandstone. The land to the north west of the town is slightly undulating
9844_79	due to mining subsidence, which sometimes causes farmland to be flooded. The south east part of the
9844_80	town is slightly raised giving views to the north. From certain parts of town the Cheviot Hills are
9844_81	visible about to the north.
9844_82	The town is roughly square in shape, lying north to south. The town centre is in the north of the
9844_83	town. South of this are residential areas. Farmland is on both east and west flanks. The south part
9844_84	is residential bordered by the River Wansbeck to the south. To the east of the town is the small
9844_85	coastal town of Newbiggin and to the west is the small village of Bothal, also on the River
9844_86	Wansbeck. South of the town is the small village of North Seaton which once had its own pit. North
9844_87	of the town about 2 miles is the village of Linton and north east of the town is Lynemouth.
9844_88	To the north of the town is Queen Elizabeth II Country Park which contains a lake surrounded by
9844_89	pine woodland plantation. The original Ashington Colliery was on the north west of the town and the
9844_90	smaller Woodhorn Pit was on the north east.
9844_91	Climate and soil
9844_92	The climate is cool temperate. Summers are drier than on the west coast of Britain, but cooler than

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|5||L||April 18, 1963||1–3 || || align="left" | @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) || 1–4 |-

9843_174

Awards and honors Art Ross Trophy: Gordie Howe Hart Memorial Trophy: Gordie Howe

9843_175

Gordie Howe, Right Wing, NHL First Team All-Star

9843_176

Terry Sawchuk, Goaltender, NHL Second Team All-Star

9843_177

References Red Wings on Hockey Database

9843_178

Detroit Detroit Detroit Red Wings seasons Detroit Red Wings Detroit Red Wings

9844_0

Ashington is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, with a population of 27,864 at the

9844_1

2011 Census. It was once a centre of the coal mining industry. The town is north of Newcastle upon

9844_2

Tyne, west of the A189 and bordered to the south by the River Wansbeck. The North Sea coast at

9844_3

Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is away.

9844_4

Many inhabitants have a distinctive accent and dialect known as Pitmatic. This varies from the

9844_5

regional dialect known as Geordie.

9844_6

History

9844_7

The name Ashington has the earlier orthography Essendene (today's "sh" rarely developed in writing

9844_8

for that phoneme) which has been referenced since 1170. This may have originated from a given name

9844_9

Æsc, not unknown among Saxon invaders who sailed from Northern Germany. If so he came to the

9844_10

Wansbeck and would have settled in this deep wooded valley near Sheepwash. The "de" in the early

9844_11

orthographies more strongly suggests dene, so ash dene - these trees would have lined it. In the

9844_12

1700s all that existed of Ashington was a small farm with a few dwellings around it.

9844_13

Coal mining

9844_14

The first evidence of mining is from bell-shaped pits and monastic mine workings discovered in the

9844_15

20th Century during tunnelling. Ashington developed from a small hamlet in the 1840s when the Duke

9844_16

of Portland built housing to encourage people escaping the Great Famine of Ireland to come and work

9844_17

at his nearby collieries. As in many other parts of Britain, "deep pit" coal mining in the area

9844_18

declined during the 1980s and 1990s leaving just one colliery, Ellington which closed in January

9844_19

2005. In 2006 plans for an opencast mine on the outskirts of the town were put forward, although

9844_20

many people objected to it. During the heyday of coal-mining, Ashington was considered to be the

9844_21

"world's largest coal-mining village". There is now a debate about whether Ashington should be

9844_22

referred to as a town or a village; if considered as a village it would be one of the largest

9844_23

villages in England.

9844_24

Growth of the town

9844_25

As coal mining expanded, more people left the countryside and settled in Ashington. This led the

9844_26

Ashington Coal Company to build parallel rows of colliery houses. Some newcomers came from as far

9844_27

as Cornwall to make use of their tin-mining skills.

9844_28

With the growing coal industry came the need for a railway link. Ashington was linked to the Blyth

9844_29

and Tyne Railway in the 1850s, and also to the East Coast Main Line near Ulgham (pronounced

9844_30

Uffham). The railway was used by passenger trains until the Beeching Axe in 1964 closed the railway

9844_31

station, called Hirst railway station, which had opened in 1872. The railway line runs south

9844_32

towards the steep-sided River Wansbeck valley, originally crossed by a wooden viaduct, which was

9844_33

replaced by today's steel-built Black Bridge.

9844_34

In 1913 the original Ashington Hospital was built. It was about 1/4 mile from the town centre. The

9844_35

hospital was expanded in the 1950s and '60s with large new wings. This hospital was closed in the

9844_36

mid 1990s and replaced by the new Wansbeck General Hospital which opened on a green-field site on

9844_37

the eastern edge of the town with better links to the A189 Spine Road. The last of the old

9844_38

buildings were demolished in 2004.

9844_39

Traditionally the area to the east of the railway was called Hirst and that to the west was

9844_40

Ashington proper. Although collectively called Ashington, both halves had their own park: Hirst

9844_41

Park (opened in 1915) in the east and the People's Park in the west.

9844_42

The colliery-built houses followed a grid plan. The streets in the Hirst End running north to south

9844_43

were named after British trees, such as Hawthorn Road, Beech Terrace, and Chestnut Street. The

9844_44

east-west running streets were numbered avenues, starting with First Avenue near the town centre,

9844_45

finishing at Seventh Avenue towards the southern end. After the 1920s houses in Ashington were

9844_46

built by the council and were most often semi-detached houses, such as Garden City Villas. These

9844_47

occupied much of the fields in the Hirst area. New estates were built in different areas. The

9844_48

biggest building programme was in the late 1960s and saw Ashington extend south from Seventh Avenue

9844_49

opposite the Technical College towards North Seaton and south eastwards towards the A189. Some of

9844_50

the houses at the north end of Alexandra Road were private homes. During this building programme

9844_51

several new schools were built, for example Coulson Park, Seaton Hirst Middle. Community shops and

9844_52

a social club (the Northern) were built off Fairfield Drive. The late 1970s and early 1980s saw

9844_53

construction of Nursery Park opposite the North Seaton Hotel. The late 1980s and 1990s saw the

9844_54

building of the Wansbeck Estate between the River Wansbeck and Green Lane as well as the large

9844_55

Fallowfield Estate.

9844_56

In the late 1960s the area by the railway station was developed into Wansbeck Square, housing a

9844_57

supermarket, council offices and a public library, built partly over the railway line.

9844_58

In 1981 the Woodhorn Pit closed and its chimney was demolished. In the late 1980s this became a

9844_59

museum. In 1988 Ashington Pit was closed and is now occupied by a business park. In the early 2000s

9844_60

maisonette flats in various parts of Hirst were demolished and parts of the Moorhouse and

9844_61

Woodbridge estate opposite Woodhorn Pit were demolished.

9844_62

The railway was used until recently by the Alcan Aluminium plant, to transport coal to its adjacent

9844_63

power station in the nearby town of Lynemouth. The plant closed in late 2015. The line was put in

9844_64

use again from mid-2017 to transport materials to Lynemouth, for the conversion of the coal-fired

9844_65

power station to produce power from biomass. The Northumberland Line project is reopening a railway

9844_66

passenger service by 2024.

9844_67

Ashington Urban District was created in 1896, covering part of the parish of Ashington and

9844_68

Sheepwash and part of the parish of Bothal Demesne, and incorporating Hirst. In 1900 the urban

9844_69

district was enlarged to include North Seaton; then Sheepwash, most of Woodhorn and the remainder

9844_70

of Bothal Demesne in 1935. The urban district survived until 1974, when under the Local Government

9844_71

Act 1972 it became part of the Wansbeck district.

9844_72

In October 2008, plans to opencast 2m tonnes of coal in Ashington were approved. UK Coal's plans

9844_73

which were first submitted in 2005, would create 60+ jobs.

9844_74

Geography

9844_75

Ashington is in south east Northumberland, which is a largely urban area adjacent to Newcastle.

9844_76

Most of the area is of flat ground formed during the Carboniferous period when ancient tropical

9844_77

swamp forests were buried and formed the coal seams that have given this area its significance. The

9844_78

local geology is of yellow sandstone. The land to the north west of the town is slightly undulating

9844_79

due to mining subsidence, which sometimes causes farmland to be flooded. The south east part of the

9844_80

town is slightly raised giving views to the north. From certain parts of town the Cheviot Hills are

9844_81

visible about to the north.

9844_82

The town is roughly square in shape, lying north to south. The town centre is in the north of the

9844_83

town. South of this are residential areas. Farmland is on both east and west flanks. The south part

9844_84

is residential bordered by the River Wansbeck to the south. To the east of the town is the small

9844_85

coastal town of Newbiggin and to the west is the small village of Bothal, also on the River

9844_86

Wansbeck. South of the town is the small village of North Seaton which once had its own pit. North

9844_87

of the town about 2 miles is the village of Linton and north east of the town is Lynemouth.

9844_88

To the north of the town is Queen Elizabeth II Country Park which contains a lake surrounded by

9844_89

pine woodland plantation. The original Ashington Colliery was on the north west of the town and the

9844_90

smaller Woodhorn Pit was on the north east.

9844_91

Climate and soil

9844_92

The climate is cool temperate. Summers are drier than on the west coast of Britain, but cooler than