Cochrane Park

Cochrane Park
Cochrane Park
	Cochrane Park Location within Tyne and Wear
OS grid reference	NZ274669
• London	242 miles (389 km)
Metropolitan borough	Newcastle upon Tyne;
Metropolitan county	Tyne and Wear;
Region	North East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Postcode district	NE7
Dialling code	0191
Police	Northumbria
Fire	Tyne and Wear
Ambulance	North East
UK Parliament	Newcastle upon Tyne Central;
	List of places UK England Tyne and Wear 54°59′49″N 1°34′23″W / 54.997°N 1.573°W

Cochrane Park, located at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, is the principal competitive venue for football, rugby and cricket at Newcastle University.^[1] It is named after Sir Cecil Cochrane who donated 20 acres of land to the university.^[2] It has three county standard football pitches, three county standard rugby pitches, a cricket square, a lacrosse pitch and five tennis courts. The site also offers a pavilion with team changing facilities, function suite and bar facilities. Newcastle University was an official Games-Time Training Venue for the London 2012 Olympic Games, and the University's Cochrane Park sports ground was a dedicated football training venue for the Games in July 2012.^[3]

The area around the Cochrane Park sports ground is also widely known as Cochrane Park and is home to Newcastle University's residential facility called Henderson Hall^[4] and the Coach Lane Campus of Northumbria University and Roy Haygarth. It consists of many streets such as Felixstowe Drive, Cochrane Park Avenue, Bretton Gardens and Vancouver Drive, opposite the Lochside Public House. It is known as a middle class area. It borders High Heaton, and has local walkways which link it to Paddy Freemans Park and Victoria Glade Park.