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Bedlington

Bedlington is a town in the civil parish of West Bedlington, in Northumberland, England, with a population of 18,470 measured at the 2011 Census.

Bedlington
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The place

Bedlington is a town in the civil parish of West Bedlington, in Northumberland, England, with a population of 18,470 measured at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bedlington

6 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
    Bothal Castle

    Bothal Castle is a castle and stately home in the village of the same name near the River Wansbeck, between Morpeth and Ashington in the English county of Northumberland. The word "Bothal" is Old English for a dwelling, and may have referred to a particular dwelling or hall.

    4.8 km · Grade I listed castle in Ashington, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Northumberlandia

    Northumberlandia is a huge land art sculpture in the shape of a reclining female figure, which was completed in 2012, near Cramlington, Northumberland, northern England. It is in the care of Northumberland Wildlife Trust.

    5.2 km · land sculpture by Charles Jencks · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Plessey Woods Country Park

    Plessey Woods is a country park situated on the north bank of the River Blyth, in Northumberland. The park is accessed from the A192 in the village of Hartford Bridge, north of Cramlington and south west of Bedlington.

    2.6 km · park in Northumberland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hartford Hall

    Hartford Hall, near Bedlington in Northumberland, is a building of historical significance that is Grade II* listed on the English Heritage Register. It was built in 1807 by William Burdon, a philosopher and wealthy landowner and remained in the Burdon family for the next 130 years.

    2.2 km · house in West Bedlington, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ashington Town Hall

    Ashington Town Hall is a municipal building in Station Road in Ashington, Northumberland, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Ashington Urban District Council until 1974, is now the base of Ashington Town Council.

    6 km · town hall in Ashington, Northumberland, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Northumberland College

    Northumberland College is a further education college based in Ashington, Northumberland, England. The present site opened in 1957, and became the County Technical College in 1961, transformed again in 1987, becoming the Northumberland College of Arts and Technology, and finally settled upon its current status in 1995.

    5.3 km · college in Northumberland, 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 Bedlington

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 12 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 141 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 144 km
Stations
Pegswood railway station, 5.9 km · Cramlington railway station, 4.9 km · Ashington railway station, 5.8 km · Blyth Bebside railway station, 2.6 km · Bedlington railway station, 2.3 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Bedlington
    148 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £17–22
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Bedlington
    143 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £17–23
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Bedlington
    195 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · £23–31
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bedlington

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 Bedlington. 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

    229 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    253 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    282 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    359 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bedlington

Bedlington is 18 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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