Editing George Stephenson (section)

===Memorials===

[[File:George Stephenson - geograph.org.uk - 2315455.jpg|thumb|right|Stephenson's statue in Chesterfield]]
[[George Stephenson's Birthplace]] is an 18th-century [[historic house museum]] in the village of [[Wylam]], and is operated by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]. Dial Cottage at [[West Moor]], his home from 1804, remains but the museum that once operated there has closed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/222809 |title=NZ2770: Dial Cottage (George Stephenson's Cottage), Westmoor |website=Geograph |year=2001}}</ref><ref>https://www.flickr.com/photos/pinzac55/7267455114/ Flickr image taken inside Dial Cottage in 1994.</ref>

[[Chesterfield Museum]] in [[Chesterfield, Derbyshire|Chesterfield]], Derbyshire, has a gallery of Stephenson memorabilia, including straight thick glass tubes he invented for growing straight [[cucumber]]s. The museum is in the [[Stephenson Memorial Hall]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/346754|title=SK3871: Stephenson Memorial Hall |publisher=[[Geograph]]|access-date=13 May 2011}}</ref> not far from both Stephenson's final home at Tapton House and Holy Trinity Church within which is his vault. In Liverpool, where he lived at 34 Upper Parliament Street, a City of Liverpool Heritage Plaque is situated next to the front door.

[[Stephenson College, Durham|Stephenson College]], founded in 2001 on the [[Durham University]]'s [[Queen's Campus, Durham University|Queen's Campus]] in [[Stockton-on-Tees]] (relocated to Durham in 2018), is named after him. Also named after him and his son is [[George Stephenson High School]] in Killingworth, Stephenson Memorial Primary School in [[Howdon]], the [[Stephenson Railway Museum]] in [[North Shields]], the [[Stephenson Locomotive Society]], the Stephenson Centre, an SEBD Unit of Beaumont Hill School in Darlington, and the Stephenson Building, home of the school of engineering at [[Newcastle University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni/news/item/stephenson-building-redevelopment/|title=New Stephenson Building gets ready to welcome students|date=8 September 2023|website=Newcastle University|access-date=14 February 2024}}</ref> His last home in Tapton, Chesterfield is now part of Chesterfield College and is called Tapton House Campus.

As a tribute to his life and works, a bronze statue of Stephenson was unveiled at [[Chesterfield railway station]] (in the town where Stephenson spent the last ten years of his life) on 28 October 2005, marking the completion of improvements to the station. At the event a full-size working replica of the ''[[Stephenson's Rocket|Rocket]]'' was on show, which then spent two days on public display at the Chesterfield Market Festival. A statue of him dressed in classical robes stands in Neville Street, Newcastle, facing the buildings that house the [[Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne]] and the [[North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers]], near [[Newcastle railway station]]. The statue was sculpted in 1862 by [[John Graham Lough]] and is listed Grade II.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northumbria.info/Pages/stephenson.html |title=George Stephenson Monument  |website=northumbria.onfo}}</ref>

From 1990 until 2003, Stephenson's portrait appeared on the reverse of Series E £5 [[Banknotes of the pound sterling|notes]] issued by the [[Bank of England note issues|Bank of England]]. Stephenson's face is shown alongside an engraving of the ''Rocket'' steam engine and the [[Skerne Bridge]] on the Stockton to Darlington Railway.<ref name="bankofengland">{{cite web|url=http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/denom_guide/index.htm|title=Withdrawn banknotes reference guide|publisher=Bank of England|access-date=17 October 2008|archive-date=10 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610131654/http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/denom_guide/index.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Stephenson's profile is carved in the facade of Lisbon's Victorian railway station.

North-western [[Milan]] has the street Via Giorgio Stephenson in his honour.