Locations on Hartlepool Headland

[Jamie]

Hi,

I am going to add a map soon to the site guide covering Hartlepool headland. Version 1 is below. Hopefully the numbering will be a bit clearer in the final version. I have labeled several points on the map where they are not just refered to by road name etc. If anyone can see any I have missed or got wrong can you reply to this to let me know

Thanks,
Jamie

1) Memorial Garden
2) Lighthouse/Seawatching area/ Toilet block
3) Old Observetry (now military exhabition)
4) Rugby Pitch
5) Tennis courts/Childrens play area
6) Town Moor
7) Bowling Green
8 ) Olive Street Bowling Green
9) Painters Garden (access sometimes open when ringing nets not up. When open from here you can see into number 10)
10) Doctors garden. Only tops of bushes visible unless painters garden is open as bird club has permission to view it from here.
11) Bank Scrub
12) St Marys Church/Garages
13) Health Centre. The alley next to this gives a good view of trees behind garage
14) Old Peoples home
15) St Hildas Chruchyard
16) Icky Alley (real name Princess Street)
17) Regent Square Gardens
18) Harbour Pub/Andy Capp Statue
19) Heugh Pier
20) The Croft
21) Putting Green (I guess it must have been one once despite no sign of putting there in last 30+ years!)
22) Borough Hall Gardens/Fish Shop Trees
23) Car Park for Fish Quay
24) Breakwater

[Jamie]

Hi,

this is the second map for more outlying areas

A) Jewish Cemetry
B) Cemetry Scrub
C) West View Cemetry

[IanF]

Maybe Sion Kopp added to the side of Jewish Cemetery?

On the first map - maybe 24 should read Heugh Pier or Heugh Breakwater.

I've never known the proper names for certain but I've always called 19 the Pilot Pier. The pier opposite being the Banjo or Lifeboat Pier.

The rocks inside the breakwater below Albion Terrace could do with being named as it's well known for waders - a name other than Parton Rocks which covers north of Heugh Pier as well.

Also Town Wall Rocks? for the waders area inside Pilot Pier.

Maybe the map could be extended left a little to include the steps at the end of the Town Wall by the refueling quay where the RN Grebes & Slav Grebes often hang around?

[Eddie H]

Guys,

  The pier is indeed the Pilot Pier, but a few call it the "Old Pier"or Red Light. The rocks inside the Heugh are locally known as the Block Sands. Another great place is the old swimming pool and scrub above high water between the two piers. I know to people here its like teaching your granny ......, but some may not be aware.
 I live on the first row of houses you come to on the Headland, and infront of me is a line of bushes. These are always full of birds. As you drive onto te Headland you notice the "Hartlepool Cool Store" sign, those bushes there. Call into 182 for a cuppa  

 Another note, the prominade around the seafront, as you get to the town moor is another good place. Lots of little birds cling to the limestone rocks around there, especially the Band Stand near the Gun Battery, locally known as the Kayak. The road toward the Spion Kop and cementaries is another avenue of shrubs, always great for Magpies, one per lamp post. And a host of "littler ones". I know my brother, WayneH, will cringe when he reads how I've named birds here. Just a newbie for now.

 If anyone is planning a session here, do email me , ..... astroeddie2002@yahoo.co.uk and I can join the trek. If you want company that is  

  Eddie

[A McLee]

Thinking of outsiders to the area, visiting say Saltholme, it might be useful if one or two locations on the map were given a post code which could be entered into a sat. nav. device, which would get them into the area from afar. After that they could use the map to walk to selected locations.
Alistair McLee

[A McLee]

Further to my post above -
Examples
Heugh Gun Battery , Moor Terrace, H'pool TS24 0PS;   Headland Library, H'pool Ts24 0JD.

[Fellwalker]

Anything come of this great idea?  When I look in the Site Guide under Hartlepool Headland, it just has a couple of old photos.

[Jamie]

Hi,

still on my to-do list im afraid

[TobyAW]

We're putting together a North Tees marshes sightings Map for the Phil Stead Hide so will try and incorporate the post code idea into it but will need from assistance from those living in these areas.

[Jamie]

Just realised there is now an easy way to do this and here is the result:- http://goo.gl/maps/9uvj

Can you let me know any errors or omissions - thanks

[A McLee]

................. and very nice too, Jamie.
Perhaps the piece of beach on the A178 by the railway bridge which has a good high tide roost of assorted waders and the statutory Med. Gull?