Northumberland
Northumberland is a rural county in North East England, on the England-Scotland border. It contains one of the most picturesque and untouched stretches of coastline in the United Kingdom and contains rolling hills and low mountains in the sparsely populated interior.Photo: Stevenfruitsmaak, Public domain.
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Lindisfarne
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The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, known colloquially as either Lindisfarne or Holy Island, is just off the coast of Northumberland, England.
Berwick-upon-Tweed
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Berwick-upon-Tweed is a town in Northumberland, two miles south of the border with Scotland, with a population of 13,170 in 2021.
Destinations
Morpeth
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Morpeth is a historic market town of 14,000 people in Northumberland, England, on the River Wansbeck.
Hexham
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Hexham is a small market town in the Tyne valley of Northumberland, 24 miles west of Newcastle.
Northumberland National Park
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Northumberland National Parkis the most northerly park in England and covers 1030 km2.
Haltwhistle
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Haltwhistle is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, 22.9 miles east of Carlisle and 36.8 miles west of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Cheviot Hills
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The Cheviot Hills, or sometimes The Cheviots, are a range of uplands straddling the Anglo-Scottish border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.
Cramlington
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Cramlington is a town of 40,000 people in south-east Northumberland, United Kingdom.
Corbridge
Corbridge is a village in the Tyne valley of Northumberland, 16 miles west of Newcastle and 4 miles east of Hexham.Prudhoe
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Prudhoe is a town in Northumberland, England. This guide also covers the neighbouring village of Wylam.
Amble
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Amble is a sleepy coastal town on Britain’s north Northumberland coast.
Farne Islands
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The Farne Islands are off the Northumberland coast in England.
Alnmouth
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Alnmouth is a beach resort town in Northumberland, England.
Northumberland
- Type: Region with 320,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county and unitary authority area in north east England, UK
- Neighbors: Cumbria, Scottish Borders and Tyne and Wear
- Categories: ceremonial county of England and unitary authority area in England
- Location: North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude of center
55.2425° or 55° 14' 33" northLongitude of center
-2.0654° or 2° 3' 55" westPopulation
320,000Elevation
906 feet (276 metres)GeoNames ID
11609026Wikidata ID
Q23079Northumberland Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Northumberland
- Arabic: Northumberland
- Arabic: نورث ثمبرلاند
- Arabic: نورثمبرلاند
- Armenian: Նորթամբերլենդ
- Asturian: Northumberland
- Azerbaijani: Nortamberlend qraflığı
- Balinese: Northumberland
- Basque: Northumberland
- Belarusian: Нартамберленд
- Belarusian: Нортамбэрлэнд
- Belarusian: графства Нартумберленд
- Bengali: নর্থাম্বারল্যান্ড
- Breton: Northumberland
- Bulgarian: Нортъмбърланд
- Catalan: Northumberland
- Cebuano: Northumberland
- Chinese: Northumberland
- Chinese: 諾森伯倫郡
- Chinese: 諾森伯蘭
- Chinese: 諾森伯蘭郡
- Chinese: 诺森伯兰郡
- Cornish: Northumberland
- Czech: Northumberland
- Danish: Northumberland
- Dutch: Northumberland
- English: Ceremonial County Northumberland
- English: Northumberland, England
- Esperanto: Northumberland
- Estonian: Northumberland
- Finnish: Northumberland
- French: Northumberland
- Galician: Northumberland
- German: Northumberland
- Greek: Νορθάμπερλαντ
- Greek: Νορθουμβρία
- Gujarati: ઉત્તરઅમ્બરલેન્ડ
- Hakka Chinese: Northumberland
- Hausa: Northumberland
- Hebrew: מחוז נורת'מברלנד
- Hebrew: נורת'מברלנד
- Hindi: नॉर्थम्बरलैंड
- Hungarian: Northumberland
- Icelandic: Norðymbraland
- Indonesian: Northumberland
- Interlingua: Northumberland
- Irish: Northumberland
- Italian: Northumberland
- Japanese: ノーサンバーランド
- Kannada: ನಾರ್ಥಂಬರ್ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್
- Korean: 노섬벌랜드주
- Kurdish: Northumberland
- Ladin: Northumberland
- Latin: Northumbria
- Latvian: Nortamberlenda
- Lithuanian: Nortamberlandas
- Lithuanian: Nortumberlandas
- Luxembourgish: Grofschaft Northumberland
- Macedonian: Нортамберленд
- Manx: Northumberland
- Marathi: नॉर्थअंबरलँड
- Min Nan Chinese: Northumberland
- Narom: Nord-Humbrelande
- Northern Frisian: Northumberland
- Norwegian: Northumberland
- Norwegian Bokmål: Northumberland
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Northumberland
- Occitan (post 1500): Northumberland
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Norþhymbraland
- Ossetian: Нортамберленд
- Persian: نورثآمبرلند
- Polish: Northumberland
- Portuguese: Northumberland
- Portuguese: Nortúmbria
- Quechua: Northumberland
- Romanian: Northumberland
- Russian: Нортамберленд
- Scots: Northumberland
- Serbian: Нортамберланд
- Serbo-Croatian: Northumberland
- Sicilian: Northumberland
- Sindhi: نارٿمبر لينڊ
- Slovak: Northumberland
- Slovenian: Northumberland
- Spanish: Northumberland
- Swahili: Northumberland
- Swedish: Northumberland
- Tajik: Нортумберленд
- Tamil: நோர்த்தும்பேர்லண்ட்
- Telugu: నార్తంబర్లాండ్
- Thai: นอร์ทัมเบอร์แลนด์
- Turkish: Northumberland
- Uighur: Nortumbér Wilayiti
- Ukrainian: Нортамберленд
- Urdu: نارتھمبرلینڈ
- Uzbek: Northumberland
- Vietnamese: Northumberland
- Vlaams: Northumberland
- Volapük: Northumberland
- Waray (Philippines): Northumberland
- Welsh: Northumberland
- Western Frisian: Northumberland
- Western Panjabi: نارتھمبرلینڈ
- Wu Chinese: 诺森伯兰郡
- Yiddish: נארטהאמבערלאנד
- Yue Chinese: 諾森伯倫郡
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Northumberland. Photo: matthewhartley369, CC BY-SA 2.0.