Cowpen
Cowpen is an area of Blyth, in the civil parish of Blyth in the county of Northumberland, England.
Cowpen is an area of Blyth, in the civil parish of Blyth in the county of Northumberland, England. It is just east of the A189 road. The Ward population taken at the 2011 census was 4,466.
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Worth seeing in and around Cowpen
One place 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.
- 01Blyth High Light
Blyth is an industrial port town as well as a civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England. It lies on the coast, to the south of the River Blyth.
2.5 km · lighthouse in Blyth, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cowpen
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 14 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 140 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 147 km
- Stations
- Bedlington railway station, 2.3 km · Blyth Bebside railway station, 1.2 km · Newsham railway station, 2.1 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Cowpen148 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £17–22
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Cowpen146 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £18–24
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Cowpen199 km · quickest by road, 4h 21m · £24–32
- 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 Cowpen
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 Cowpen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Cowpen
Cowpen is 18 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- North Blythvillage in Northumberland, England, UK2 km
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