Branch End
Branch End is part of the village of Stocksfield in Northumberland, England.

Branch End is part of the village of Stocksfield in Northumberland, England. It is situated at the junction of the A695 Main Road with New Ridley Road. It lies 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Stocksfield Station, between Hexham and Newcastle upon Tyne.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Branch End
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.
- 01Prudhoe Castle
Prudhoe Castle is a ruined medieval English castle situated on the south bank of the River Tyne at Prudhoe, Northumberland, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building.
3.3 km · Grade I listed castle in Prudhoe, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Bywell Castle
Bywell Castle is situated in the village of Bywell overlooking the River Tyne, four miles east of Corbridge, Northumberland, England. It is a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
1.6 km · Grade I listed castle in Bywell, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Bywell Hall
Bywell Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house situated on the north bank of the River Tyne at Bywell, Northumberland, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
1.8 km · country house in Northumbria, UK · Wikipedia - 04Bywell Bridge
Bywell Bridge is a 19th-century stone bridge across the River Tyne. It is a Grade II listed building.
1.4 km · Grade II listed bridge in Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Cherryburn
Cherryburn is a cottage in Mickley, Northumberland, England. It was the birthplace of Thomas Bewick, an English wood engraver and ornithologist.
1.5 km · 18th-century historic vernacular building in Mickley, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Andrew's Church, Bywell
St Andrew's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Bywell, Northumberland, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
1.7 km · Grade I listed church in Bywell, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Branch End
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 17 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 121 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 145 km
- Stations
- Prudhoe railway station, 3 km · Stocksfield railway station, 1.1 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Branch End7 km · quickest by road, 17 min · £0.5–1
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Branch End267 km · quickest by air, 5h 44m · £80–120
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Branch End51 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £6–7
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Branch End
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 Branch End. 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).
From Wikivoyage: North East England, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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If you know how people move in Branch End – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Branch End
Branch End is 18 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Prudhoetown in Northumberland, England3.6 km
- Ovinghamvillage in Northumberland, England, UK3 km
- Ovingtonvillage and civil parish in Northumberland, United Kingdom2 km
- Bywellvillage and civil parish in Northumberland, England, UK1.9 km
- Stocksfieldcivil parish in Northumberland, England1 km
- Mickleyvillage in Northumberland, England1.6 km