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Healey

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Healey

2 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
    Minsteracres

    Minsteracres is an 18th-century mansion house, now a Christian retreat centre, in Northumberland, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

    2.4 km · monastery in Healey, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Andrew's Church

    St Andrew's Church, Shotley, is a redundant Anglican church standing in an isolated position at a height of 960 feet on Greymare Hill in Northumberland, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.6 km · redundant Anglican church standing in an isolated position at a height of 960 feet (293 m) on Greymare Hill in Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Healey

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 22 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 119 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 145 km
Stations
Riding Mill railway station, 3.6 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Healey
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £14–19
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  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Healey
    144 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £15–21
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  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Healey
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · £21–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Healey

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe Shields Ferry crosses the mouth of the Tyne between South Shields and North Shields every 30 mins, a seven-minute ride.
  • Get aroundFoot passengers and bikes only; both ferry piers are served by the Metro.
  • Get aroundThe Tees Transporter Bridge is a weird contraption: it's a gondola slung beneath a slender metal bridge that carries vehicles and others across the river between Middlesbrough (south bank) and Port Clarence, Stockton (north bank).

From Wikivoyage: North East England, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    214 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    241 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    270 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    355 km

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Next door to Healey

Healey is 23 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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