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Seaton Burn

Seaton Burn is a village in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, to the north of Newcastle upon Tyne, and adjacent to Wideopen which is just south of it.

The place

Seaton Burn is a village in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, to the north of Newcastle upon Tyne, and adjacent to Wideopen which is just south of it. It is part of the wider Seaton valley in which some Seaton villages are in Northumberland, and others in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear. This is because the area lies on the border between the two counties.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Seaton Burn

5 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
    Northumberlandia

    Northumberlandia is a huge land art sculpture in the shape of a reclining female figure, which was completed in 2012, near Cramlington, Northumberland, northern England. It is in the care of Northumberland Wildlife Trust.

    3 km · land sculpture by Charles Jencks · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Blagdon Hall

    Blagdon Hall is a privately owned English country house and Grade I listed building at the Blagdon estate near Cramlington in Northumberland. The estate has been in the ownership of the White Ridley family since 1698.

    3.8 km · house in Stannington, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Burradon Tower

    Burradon Tower is a ruinous tower house at Burradon, North Tyneside, England which is both a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade II listed building. The Manor of Burradon was acquired by John Orde in 1441 when due to the devastation wrought by the Scots and the poor quality of the soil it was valued at only 20 shillings a year.

    3.8 km · tower house in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Gosforth House

    Gosforth House now known as Brandling House is a Grade II listed building built as a mansion house and now serving as a hospitality and conference centre at Gosforth Park Racecourse, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

    3 km · building in Tyne and Wear, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sacred Heart Church

    The Sacred Heart Church is a Roman Catholic church and ecclesiastical parish in North Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle.

    2.3 km · grade II listed church in North Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, 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.

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Getting to Seaton Burn

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 5 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 133 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 148 km
Stations
Cramlington railway station, 3.5 km · Annitsford railway station, 1.9 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Seaton Burn
    140 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £16–22
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Seaton Burn
    147 km · quickest by road, 3h · £18–24
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Seaton Burn
    195 km · quickest by road, 4h 10m · £23–30
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Seaton Burn

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 Seaton Burn. 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

    229 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    254 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    283 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

    362 km

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

Around it

Next door to Seaton Burn

Seaton Burn is 10 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hazleriggvillage and civil parish in Newcastle upon Tyne, north east England2 km
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  • Dinningtonvillage and civil parish in Tyne and Wear, UK3.2 km
  • Brunswickcivil parish in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK1.3 km
  • Dudleyvillage in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England2.2 km
  • Annitsfordvillage in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK3 km