Wingate
Wingate is a village in County Durham, England. Wingate is a former pit village with a mix of 19th-century, post-war, and also more recent housing developments. It was initially populated by around 30 farmers before 1839 when coal was uncovered. It is located in the East of County Durham, three miles southern west of Peterlee, and 7 miles north west of Hartlepool. Similar to many towns in the location, it proliferated with the growth of coal-mining in the area. The name Wingate is stated to originate from the Anglo-Saxon words windig (windy) and geat (road) meaning windy road. Like all County Durham villages, citizens are known to speak the pitmatic language although new housing developments has seen a sharp increase in the town's population. An electoral ward in the very same name exists. This ward extends north eastern to Peterlee and has a total population, taken at the 2011 census, of 10,302.