Wingate
Wingate is a village in County Durham, England. Wingate is a previous pit town with a combination of 19th-century, post-war, and also extra current housing developments. It was initially occupied by around 30 farmers before 1839 when coal was discovered. It lies in the East of County Durham, three miles south west of Peterlee, and seven miles north west of Hartlepool. Just like many villages in the location, it proliferated with the development of coal-mining in the region. The name Wingate is stated to derive from the Anglo-Saxon words windig (windy) and geat (road) meaning gusty road. Like all County Durham villages, locals are understood to speak the pitmatic dialect although brand-new housing developments has seen a sharp boost in the village's population. An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches north east to Peterlee and has a complete population, taken at the 2011 census, of 10,302.