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Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, often abbreviated to Newbiggin, is a seaside town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, located on the North Sea coast.

Newbiggin-by-the-Sea
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The place

Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, often abbreviated to Newbiggin, is a seaside town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, located on the North Sea coast.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

4 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
    Cresswell Castle

    Cresswell Pele Tower is in the village of Cresswell, situated overlooking the coast approximately 4 miles to the north of Ashington, Northumberland, England. The tower is a Grade II* listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

    5.8 km · tower house in Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Bartholomew's Church, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

    St Bartholomew's Church, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is the parish church of Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland. The building is part of the Diocese of Newcastle.

    800 m · Grade I listed church in Newbiggin by the Sea, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.8 km · town hall in Ashington, Northumberland, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.9 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 Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 20 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 145 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 147 km
Stations
Ashington railway station, 3.7 km · Bedlington railway station, 5.8 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Newbiggin-by-the-Sea
    143 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £17–23
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Newbiggin-by-the-Sea
    154 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £17–23
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Newbiggin-by-the-Sea
    199 km · quickest by road, 4h 26m · £24–32
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

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 Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. 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

    233 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    256 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    285 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    360 km

If you know how people move in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is 24 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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