Chopwell is a village in Tyne and Wear, located approximately three miles west of Rowlands Gill and one mile north of Hamsterley. Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in the North East of England around the mouths of the Rivers Tyne and Wear. ... Map sources for Rowlands Gill at grid reference NZ1658 Rowlands Gill is an old coal mining village on the north side of the River Derwent, in the borough of Gateshead. ... Hamsterley is a village in County Durham, in England. ...

Traditionally an area of coal mining, Chopwell was nicknamed "Little Moscow" because of the strong support for the Communist Party. Indeed, it counts "Marx Terrace" and "Lenin Terrace" among its street names. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist party in the United Kingdom. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883, London) was an immensely influential philosopher, political economist, and socialist revolutionary. ... Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: , better known by the alias   (Ленин)) (April 22, 1870 – January 24, 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of Soviet Russia, and the primary theorist of the ideology that has come to be called Leninism, which...

In 1971, Chopwell became part of the county of Tyne and Wear and the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, after previously being part of County Durham. Some were celebrating this fact, while others were disheartened. Gateshead is a metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, in north-east England. ... County Durham is a county in north-east England. ...