[1] Dial Cottage, a grade II listed building[2] and home from 1804 to 1823 of railway pioneer George Stephenson,[3] is located on Great Lime Road in Forest Hall.

It was while he was living there that Stephenson developed one of the world's earliest locomotives, called the Blücher, as well as several others which ran on the Killingworth Colliery from 1814.

The trackbed is now a public footpath which can be accessed from Great Lime Road a kilometre east of the cottage.

[6] In 2019, North Tyneside Council completed a £500,000 public works project into Station Road North; this included replacing the paving tiles, installing new benches and raising the road junction at the western end of the street as a traffic calming measure.

[7][8] Forest Hall is located in the borough of North Tyneside in the ceremonial county of Tyne & Wear.

[23] Several bus routes pass through Forest Hall, linking it to both Newcastle city centre and other surrounding areas such as Cramlington and Whitley Bay.