Aydon
Aydon is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Corbridge, in Northumberland, England.
Aydon is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Corbridge, in Northumberland, England. It is about 2 miles (3 km) northeast of Corbridge on the B6321 road. The village is about 18 miles (29 km) from Newcastle upon Tyne along the main A69 road. The A68 road is close by, leading to Jedburgh and Darlington. Aydon lies near the course of the ancient Roman monument, Hadrian's Wall. In 1951 the parish had a population of 90.
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Worth seeing in and around Aydon
9 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.
- 01Aydon Castle
Aydon Castle, previously sometimes called Aydon Hall, is a fortified manor house at Aydon near to the town of Corbridge, Northumberland, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and is designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.
800 m · fortified manor house near Corbridge, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Coria
Coria was a fort and town 2.5 miles south of Hadrian's Wall, in the Roman province of Britannia. It was strategically located on the junction of a major Roman north–south road with the River Tyne and the Roman Stanegate road, which was also the first frontier line which ran east–west between Coria and Luguvalium.
2.9 km · archaeological site in Corbridge, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Corbridge Lion
The Corbridge Lion, Northumberland, England, is an ancient Roman free-standing sandstone sculpture of a male lion standing on a prone animal on a semi-cylindrical coping stone base. Measuring 0.95m in length by 0.36m in width and 0.87m high, it was originally a piece of decorative funerary ornamentation from a tomb.
2.9 km · ancient Roman sandstone sculpture · Wikipedia - 04Hunnum
Hunnum was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall located north of the modern-day village of Halton, Northumberland in North East England. It was the fifth fort on Hadrian's Wall and is situated about 7.5 miles west of Vindobala fort, 5.9 miles east of Chesters fort and 2.5 miles north of the Stanegate fort of Coria.
2.7 km · Roman fort in Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Halton Castle
Halton Castle is a pele tower and grade I listed building situated close to Hadrian's Wall to the north of the village of Corbridge in Northumberland, England. The tower was first recorded in 1382 and it is still present today.
2.2 km · Grade I listed peel tower in Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Corbridge Bridge
Corbridge Bridge is a 17th-century stone bridge across the River Tyne at Corbridge, Northumberland, England, at the point where another structure, eventually a toll bridge, was constructed in the 13th-century. The later, characteristic 7-span structure would be the only bridge on the Tyne to withstand the Great Flood of 1771.
2.6 km · Grade I listed bridge in Corbridge, Northumberland, England · Wikipedia - 07The Vicars Pele
Corbridge Vicar's Pele is a pele tower in the village of Corbridge, Northumberland, England. It was a three-storey defensive pele tower, with one room to each storey, built in the churchyard in 1318, and used as the vicarage for the adjacent church.
2.5 km · Grade I listed peel tower and pub in Corbridge, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Town Hall With Shops
Corbridge Town Hall is a municipal building in Princes Street in Corbridge, Northumberland, England. The building, which is now in commercial use, is a Grade II listed building.
2.4 km · town hall in Corbridge, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Sandhoe 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.
3.9 km · country house in Sandhoe, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Aydon
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 20 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 127 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 138 km
- Stations
- Corbridge railway station, 3.1 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Aydon136 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £17–23
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Aydon137 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £15–20
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Aydon176 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · £20–26
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Aydon
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 Aydon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe Shields Ferry crosses the mouth of the Tyne between South Shields and North Shields every 30 mins, a seven-minute ride.
- Get aroundFoot passengers and bikes only; both ferry piers are served by the Metro.
- Get aroundThe Tees Transporter Bridge is a weird contraption: it's a gondola slung beneath a slender metal bridge that carries vehicles and others across the river between Middlesbrough (south bank) and Port Clarence, Stockton (north bank).
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Next door to Aydon
Aydon is 24 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.