About Prudhoe
- Prudhoe is a thriving town of 12,000 people and growing all the time.
- Prudhoe is a friendly place where the locals want to get to know you.
- Four out of five people rate Prudhoe as a good place to live.
- Prudhoe sits in Thomas Bewick Country, which inspired the world famous wood engraver to start painting as a boy at Cherryburn.
- Prudhoe has excellent bus and rail links to Newcastle and is only 20 minutes from the airport.
- Prudhoe Community High School moved into a brand new building last year and is rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted.
- Prudhoe Castle guards the river crossing and was never conquered. It was painted by JMW Turner.
- Prudhoe is taken to mean ‘Proud Heights’ as it is sits high above the River Tyne and as we are proud of it!
- Prudhoe has an unrivalled parade of independent shops including a wool shop, an art gallery, a craft shop and the largest hardware store for miles around.
- Prudhoe Riverside Park is a gem with walks and cycles rides and a weekly Park Run.
- Prudhoe Waterworld has the best gym and swimming pool for miles around.
- Prudhoe boasts a diverse business community with jobs in telecommunications and in paper milling and much else but no longer in coal mining.