Cochrane Park

Human settlement in England

Newcastle upon Tyne

Tyne and Wear

Region

North East

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Newcastle upon Tyne Central

List of places: UK; England; Tyne and Wear

54°59′49″N 1°34′23″W / 54.997°N 1.573°W / 54.997; -1.573

Cochrane Park, located at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, is the principal competitive venue for football, rugby and cricket at Newcastle University.^[1] It is named after Sir Cecil Cochrane who donated 20 acres of land to the university.^[2] It has three county standard football pitches, three county standard rugby pitches, a cricket square, a lacrosse pitch and five tennis courts. The site also offers a pavilion with team changing facilities, function suite and bar facilities. Newcastle University was an official Games-Time Training Venue for the London 2012 Olympic Games, and the University's Cochrane Park sports ground was a dedicated football training venue for the Games in July 2012.^[3]

The area around the Cochrane Park sports ground is also widely known as Cochrane Park and is home to Newcastle University's residential facility called Henderson Hall^[4] and the Coach Lane Campus of Northumbria University and Roy Haygarth. It consists of many streets such as Felixstowe Drive, Cochrane Park Avenue, Bretton Gardens and Vancouver Drive, opposite the Lochside Public House. It is known as a middle class area. It borders High Heaton, and has local walkways which link it to Paddy Freemans Park and Victoria Glade Park.

References

^ "Cochrane Park - Centre for Physical Recreation & Sport - Newcastle University". Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
^ "Our region built on philanthropy".
^ "Olympic football complex almost ready". 13 July 2012.
^ "Henderson Hall - Accommodation - Newcastle University". www.ncl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 6 July 2016.