Wingate
Wingate is a town in County Durham, England. Wingate is a former pit village with a blend of 19th-century, post-war, and also much more recent housing developments. It was originally lived in by around 30 farmers before 1839 when coal was discovered. It is located in the East of County Durham, 3 miles southern west of Peterlee, and also seven miles north west of Hartlepool. As with many villages in the location, it proliferated with the advancement of coal-mining in the area. The name Wingate is claimed to originate from the Anglo-Saxon words windig (gusty) as well as geat (road) significance windy road. Like all County Durham towns, locals are known to speak the pitmatic dialect although brand-new housing developments has seen a sharp increase in the town's population. A selecting ward in the very same name exists. This ward stretches north east to Peterlee and has a total population, taken at the 2011 census, of 10,302.