Wingate
Wingate is a town in County Durham, England. Wingate is a former pit village with a mixture of 19th-century, post-war, as well as much more recent housing developments. It was originally occupied by around 30 farmers before 1839 when coal was found. It lies in the East of County Durham, 3 miles south west of Peterlee, and seven miles north west of Hartlepool. Just like a lot of villages in the area, it proliferated with the advancement of coal-mining in the region. The name Wingate is claimed to originate from the Anglo-Saxon words windig (windy) as well as geat (roadway) significance windy road. Like all County Durham villages, citizens are understood to talk the pitmatic dialect although new housing developments has seen a sharp rise in the village's population. A selecting ward in the exact same name exists. This ward extends north east to Peterlee and has a complete population, taken at the 2011 census, of 10,302.