Wingate
Wingate is a village in County Durham, England. Wingate is a former pit village with a mixture of 19th-century, post-war, and also more current housing developments. It was originally lived in by around 30 farmers before 1839 when coal was uncovered. It lies in the East of County Durham, three miles south west of Peterlee, and 7 miles north west of Hartlepool. Similar to most towns in the location, it grew rapidly with the growth of coal-mining in the area. The name Wingate is claimed to derive from the Anglo-Saxon words windig (windy) as well as geat (roadway) definition gusty road. Like all County Durham towns, locals are understood to talk the pitmatic dialect although new housing developments has seen a sharp increase in the town's population. An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward extends north east to Peterlee and has an overall population, taken at the 2011 census, of 10,302.