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Acomb

Acomb is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England.

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The place

Acomb is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. The village lies 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Hexham, its post town. As well as the village itself, the parish covers surrounding rural areas, with the southern boundary of the parish being the River Tyne. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 1,297.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Acomb

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Hexham

    Hexham is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the south bank of the River Tyne, formed by the confluence of the North Tyne and the South Tyne at Warden nearby, and close to Hadrian's Wall. Hexham was the administrative centre for the Tynedale district from 1974 to 2009.

    2.9 km · market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Beaufront Castle

    Beaufront Castle is a privately owned 19th-century country house near Hexham, Northumberland, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed castle in Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Constantius Bridge

    Constantius Bridge is a modern concrete bridge across the River Tyne about 1 mile north west of Hexham, Northumberland, England. The bridge carries the A69 road over the River Tyne and forms part of the Hexham bypass.

    1.3 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Warden Railway Bridge

    Warden Railway Bridge is a railway bridge carrying the Tyne Valley line between Newcastle upon Tyne and Carlisle across the River South Tyne near Warden, Northumberland.

    1.9 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Mary (Roman Catholic)

    St Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Hexham, Northumberland. It was built from 1828 to 1830 in the Gothic Revival style.

    2.5 km · church in Hexham, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Queen's Hall Arts Centre

    The Queen's Hall, formerly Hexham Town Hall, is a municipal structure in Beaumont Street, Hexham, Northumberland, England. The structure, which was the headquarters of Hexham Urban District Council and is now an arts centre, is a Grade II listed building.

    2.4 km · Arts centre (built as Town Hall and Corn Exchange, now an arts centre) · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Holy Island Cottage

    Holy Island Cottage, formerly listed as no. 1, is a Grade II* listed, early Georgian house located in Hexham, in Northumberland, England.

    2 km · house in Hexham, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    The Moot Hall

    The Moot Hall is a former judicial structure in The Market Place, Hexham, Northumberland, England. The structure, which currently accommodates an art gallery on the ground floor and the museums department of Northumberland County Council on the upper floors, is a Grade I listed building.

    2.3 km · Grade I listed building in Hexham, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Hexham Bridge

    Hexham Bridge is a road bridge in Northumberland, England linking Hexham with the North Tyne valley. It lies north of the town of Hexham and is the main access to the A69 bypass.

    1.9 km · fourth bridge across the Tyne at Hexham · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Sandhoe Hall

    Sandhoe Hall, also once known as Sandhoe House, is a 19th-century country house situated at Sandhoe, Northumberland. It is a Grade II listed building.

    3.8 km · country house in Sandhoe, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Acomb

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 27 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 129 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 133 km
Stations
Hexham railway station, 2.2 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Acomb
    138 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £16–21
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Acomb
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £14–19
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Acomb
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Acomb

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Acomb. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    202 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    229 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    258 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    333 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    343 km

If you know how people move in Acomb – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Acomb

Acomb is 32 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Bridge Endvillage in Warden, Northumberland, England, UK2.1 km
  • Anickvillage in Northumberland, United Kingdom2.8 km