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Elsdon, Northumberland

Elsdon is a village and civil parish in the English county of Northumberland about 10 miles (16 km) to the southwest of Rothbury.

Elsdon, Northumberland
Elsdon, Northumberland · Rosser1954
The place

Elsdon is a village and civil parish in the English county of Northumberland about 10 miles (16 km) to the southwest of Rothbury. The name is derived from the Old English meaning Elli's valley.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Elsdon, Northumberland

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
    Elsdon Castle

    Elsdon Castle is a castle in the village of Elsdon about 10 miles to the southwest of Rothbury, in Northumberland, England, and also known as Mote Hills. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

    400 m · motte and bailey castle in Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Elsdon Tower

    Elsdon Tower is a Grade I listed medieval tower house converted for use as a Rectory situated at Elsdon, Northumberland. Originally part of the estate of Elsdon Castle, it later became a rectory and is now a private residence.

    300 m · Grade I listed building in Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Cuthbert's Church, Elsdon

    St Cuthbert's Church is located in Elsdon, Alnwick, northeast England. The church was one of the resting places of St.

    200 m · Grade I listed church in Elsdon, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Elsdon, Northumberland

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 34 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 113 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 155 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Elsdon, Northumberland
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £12–16
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Elsdon, Northumberland
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £19–26
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Elsdon, Northumberland
    161 km · quickest by road, 4h 2m · £22–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Elsdon, Northumberland

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 Elsdon, Northumberland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    195 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    219 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    248 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    326 km

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Around it

Next door to Elsdon, Northumberland

Elsdon, Northumberland is 42 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.