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Gosforth Cumbria
Gosforth is a residential suburb of [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] in north-east [[England]], and was incorporated into that city in 1974. It is the location of Newcastle Racecourse, at Gosforth Park, and is the home of Gregg's the Bakers, a UK-wide bakery and hot snack manufacturer and retailer, and of the accountancy software company Sage. The main depot and control centre for the [[Tyne & Wear Metro]] system are both located in Gosforth.
Gosforth is a residential suburb of [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] in north-east [[England]], and was incorporated into that city in 1974. It is the location of Newcastle Racecourse, at Gosforth Park, and is the home of Gregg's the Bakers, a UK-wide bakery and hot snack manufacturer and retailer, and of the accountancy software company Sage. The main depot and control centre for the [[Tyne & Wear Metro]] system are both located in Gosforth.
The name Gosforth means 'Goose ford' (or possibly derives from 'Ouse ford', after the Ouseburn which flows through it).
==== Gosforth, Cumbria ====
Gosforth is also the name of a sizeable village in west [[Cumbria]], [[England]], not far from the [[Sellafield]] nuclear power station. This Gosforth was the subject of a notable sociological survey published as ''Sociology of an English Village: Gosforth'' by William Morgan Williams in 1964.