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Bothal

Bothal is a hamlet in the civil parish of Ashington, Northumberland, England.

Bothal
Bothal · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Bothal is a hamlet in the civil parish of Ashington, Northumberland, England. It is situated between Morpeth and Ashington. There is a castle, a church, a vicarage opposite the church gates, stepping stones over the River Wansbeck, and a few houses.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bothal

5 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.

    0 m · Grade I listed castle in Ashington, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    The Court House

    Morpeth Court is a former judicial structure on Castle Bank, Morpeth, Northumberland, England. The structure, which used to be the entrance block for a prison as well as the main courthouse for the area, is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.9 km · house in Morpeth, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Morpeth Chantry

    Morpeth Chantry also known as All Saints Chantry is a Grade I listed building situated adjacent to the site of the ancient bridge across the River Wansbeck at Morpeth, Northumberland. It was built in about 1296 and served both as a chapel dedicated to All Saints and as a toll house for the river crossing.

    4 km · Grade I listed church in Morpeth, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum

    The Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum is located in Morpeth Chantry, Morpeth, Northumberland, England. The museum, founded in 1987, contains a large collection of historic bagpipes, especially, but not exclusively, historic Northumbrian smallpipes and Border pipes, mainly based on the collection of William Alfred Cocks.

    4 km · Bagpipe museum in Morpeth, England · 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.

    3.4 km · town hall in Ashington, Northumberland, England · 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.

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Getting to Bothal

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 16 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 140 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 145 km
Stations
Morpeth railway station, 3.9 km · Pegswood railway station, 1.3 km · Longhirst railway station, 3 km · Ashington railway station, 3.5 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Bothal
    138 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £17–23
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Bothal
    153 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £18–24
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Bothal
    192 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · £24–33
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bothal

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 Bothal. 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

    226 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    250 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    279 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    355 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bothal

Bothal is 22 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ashingtontown and civil parish in Northumberland, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Pegswoodvillage in Northumberland, England1.4 km
  • Longhirstvillage in Northtumberland United Kingdom2.9 km
  • Hepscottvillage in Northumberland, England, UK3.2 km
  • Choppingtonvillage in Northumberland, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Sheepwashvillage in Northumberland, United Kingdom1.8 km