Cockfield
Worth seeing in and around Cockfield
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.
- 01Raby Castle
Raby Castle is a medieval castle located near Staindrop in County Durham, England, among 200 acres of deer park. It was built by John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, between approximately 1367 and 1390.
2.6 km · medieval castle in England · Wikipedia - 02The Greek Slave
The Greek Slave is a neoclassical marble sculpture by the American sculptor Hiram Powers. It was one of the best-known and critically acclaimed American artworks of the nineteenth century, and is among the most popular American sculptures ever.
2.6 km · full length sculpture with multiple editions by Hiram Powers · Wikipedia - 03Gaunless Viaduct
Gaunless Viaduct, also known as the Lands Viaduct, was a railway viaduct in County Durham. It was designed by Thomas Bouch to carry the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway between Bishop Auckland and Barnard Castle over the River Gaunless at Lands, also crossing the Haggerleases branch of the railway to Butterknowle.
1 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cockfield
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 48 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 84 km · Manchester (MAN), 144 km
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Cockfield42 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £5–7
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Cockfield92 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £11–15
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Cockfield129 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £17–23
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cockfield
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 Cockfield. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPassengers travelling by Eurostar from Paris, Lille, Brussels, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam and by ferry from Calais and Dunkirk, undergo UK passport checks before embarkation and selective customs checks on arrival in the UK.
- Get inHelena, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tonga, Tristan da Cunha, Tuvalu, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and the Vatican City require an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) prior to travel for visits of up to 6 months.
- Get inAn alternative route from the Netherlands is via Stena Line's Ferry en Trein combo ticket.
- Get inWith a single fare ( per adult / per child), passengers can travel by ferry from the Hook of Holland to Harwich, where they board a train to any station served by Greater Anglia in the East of England or London.
- Get inThe interchange between the ferry terminal and the train station at both ports is simple.
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Next door to Cockfield
Cockfield is 42 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.