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Choppington

Choppington is a large village and civil parish in Northumberland, England.

Choppington
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The place

Choppington is a large village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. It is situated 5 miles to the south-east of Morpeth, and north of Bedlington. It was at one time part of the three big mid-Northumberland collieries. In 2011 the parish had a population of 9787.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Choppington

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
    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.

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

    3.8 km · park in Northumberland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.5 km · house in West Bedlington, Northumberland, 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 Choppington

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 13 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 142 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 143 km
Stations
Bedlington railway station, 2.2 km · Blyth Bebside railway station, 3.3 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Choppington
    151 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £17–23
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Choppington
    141 km · quickest by road, 3h · £17–23
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Choppington
    194 km · quickest by road, 4h 22m · £23–31
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Choppington

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 Choppington. 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

    252 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    281 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    358 km

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

Around it

Next door to Choppington

Choppington is 19 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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