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Ovington

Ovington is a village and civil parish in the south of Northumberland, England.

Ovington
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The place

Ovington is a village and civil parish in the south of Northumberland, England. It is located on a hill above the north bank of the River Tyne.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ovington

6 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
    Prudhoe Castle

    Prudhoe Castle is a ruined medieval English castle situated on the south bank of the River Tyne at Prudhoe, Northumberland, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed castle in Prudhoe, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bywell Castle

    Bywell Castle is situated in the village of Bywell overlooking the River Tyne, four miles east of Corbridge, Northumberland, England. It is a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed castle in Bywell, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bywell Hall

    Bywell Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house situated on the north bank of the River Tyne at Bywell, Northumberland, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.8 km · country house in Northumbria, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bywell Bridge

    Bywell Bridge is a 19th-century stone bridge across the River Tyne. It is a Grade II listed building.

    2.1 km · Grade II listed bridge in Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cherryburn

    Cherryburn is a cottage in Mickley, Northumberland, England. It was the birthplace of Thomas Bewick, an English wood engraver and ornithologist.

    1.2 km · 18th-century historic vernacular building in Mickley, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Andrew's Church, Bywell

    St Andrew's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Bywell, Northumberland, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.7 km · Grade I listed church in Bywell, Northumberland, England, 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.

Go there

Getting to Ovington

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 16 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 123 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 144 km
Stations
Prudhoe railway station, 2.1 km · Stocksfield railway station, 2.4 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Ovington
    83 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £10–14
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Ovington
    186 km · quickest by road, 4h 2m · £20–27
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Ovington
    209 km · quickest by road, 4h 11m · £23–31
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ovington

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 Ovington. 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

    216 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    243 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    272 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    355 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ovington

Ovington is 18 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Prudhoetown in Northumberland, England3.2 km
  • Ovinghamvillage in Northumberland, England, UK2.1 km
  • Bywellvillage and civil parish in Northumberland, England, UK2.9 km
  • Stocksfieldcivil parish in Northumberland, England2.3 km
  • Mickleyvillage in Northumberland, England2.8 km
  • Branch Endvillage in Northumberland, England, UK2 km