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Guide Post

Guide Post is a village in South East Northumberland, England, about 17 miles (27 km) north of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Guide Post
Guide Post · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Guide Post is a village in South East Northumberland, England, about 17 miles (27 km) north of Newcastle upon Tyne. It lies south of the River Wansbeck along with Stakeford. It is part of the civil parish of Choppington.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Guide Post

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.

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

    Ashington Town Hall is a municipal building in Station Road in Ashington, Northumberland, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Ashington Urban District Council until 1974, is now the base of Ashington Town Council.

    3.3 km · town hall in Ashington, Northumberland, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Northumberland College

    Northumberland College is a further education college based in Ashington, Northumberland, England. The present site opened in 1957, and became the County Technical College in 1961, transformed again in 1987, becoming the Northumberland College of Arts and Technology, and finally settled upon its current status in 1995.

    3.3 km · college in Northumberland, 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.

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Getting to Guide Post

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 15 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 142 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 144 km
Stations
Pegswood railway station, 3.3 km · Ashington railway station, 3.2 km · Bedlington railway station, 3.1 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Guide Post
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £17–23
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Guide Post
    152 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £17–23
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Guide Post
    194 km · quickest by road, 4h 26m · £24–32
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Guide Post

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 Guide Post. 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

    228 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

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    357 km

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

Around it

Next door to Guide Post

Guide Post is 21 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ashingtontown and civil parish in Northumberland, United Kingdom3.3 km
  • Bedlingtontown in North East Northumberland, England3 km
  • Pegswoodvillage in Northumberland, England3.4 km
  • Hepscottvillage in Northumberland, England, UK3.5 km
  • Choppingtonvillage in Northumberland, United Kingdom1.6 km
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