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Annitsford

Annitsford is a semi-rural village located in North Tyneside, on the border between Tyne and Wear and Northumberland.

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The place

Annitsford is a semi-rural village located in North Tyneside, on the border between Tyne and Wear and Northumberland.

The main conurbation of the village falls under the jurisdiction of the Borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear. The village is known locally as 'The Ford'. Annitsford has its own pond, as well as the rivers sandys letch and the seaton burn which run through or near the village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Annitsford

3 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
    Burradon Tower

    Burradon Tower is a ruinous tower house at Burradon, North Tyneside, England which is both a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade II listed building. The Manor of Burradon was acquired by John Orde in 1441 when due to the devastation wrought by the Scots and the poor quality of the soil it was valued at only 20 shillings a year.

    1.2 km · tower house in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Gosforth House

    Gosforth House now known as Brandling House is a Grade II listed building built as a mansion house and now serving as a hospitality and conference centre at Gosforth Park Racecourse, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

    3.5 km · building in Tyne and Wear, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Sacred Heart Church

    The Sacred Heart Church is a Roman Catholic church and ecclesiastical parish in North Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle.

    3.4 km · grade II listed church in North Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, 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 Annitsford

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 7 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 133 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 150 km
Stations
Cramlington railway station, 3.4 km · Annitsford railway station, 1.2 km · Seaton Delaval railway station, 3.2 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Annitsford
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £16–21
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Annitsford
    149 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £18–24
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Annitsford
    181 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · £22–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Annitsford

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 Annitsford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inGateshead Bus 19 runs hourly from North Shields pier (for South Shields ferry), taking an hour via Percy and Seaton Delaval.

From Wikivoyage: Cramlington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    232 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    257 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    286 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    364 km

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

Around it

Next door to Annitsford

Annitsford is 10 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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