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Walbottle

Walbottle is a village in the Newcastle upon Tyne district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England.

The place

Walbottle is a village in the Newcastle upon Tyne district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It is west of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Walbottle

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
    Blaydon Bridge

    Blaydon Bridge is one of the main bridges crossing the River Tyne in North East England linking Scotswood in Newcastle upon Tyne and Blaydon in Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. The bridge was designed by Bullen and Partners and built by Edmund Nuttall Ltd between 1987 and 1990.

    3.2 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of Holy Cross, Ryton

    Holy Cross Church is a Church of England parish church in Ryton, Tyne and Wear. The church is a Grade I listed building.

    2.9 km · Grade I listed church in Ryton, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Newburn Bridge

    Newburn Bridge is a road bridge crossing the River Tyne at Newburn in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It links Newburn, Walbottle and Throckley on the north side of the river with Ryton, Stella and Blaydon on the south side.

    1.8 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Scotswood Railway Bridge

    Scotswood Railway Bridge is a pipeline bridge and former railway bridge crossing the River Tyne in North East England. It previously carried the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway between Scotswood and Blaydon stations.

    3.5 km · bridge in United Kingdom · 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 Walbottle

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 6 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 125 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 149 km
Stations
Blaydon railway station, 3.2 km · Bank Foot, 3.9 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Walbottle
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £15–21
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Walbottle
    147 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £16–21
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Walbottle
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £21–29
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Walbottle

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPort of Tyne, east of city centre, has overnight DFDS ferries from IJmuiden near Amsterdam.
  • Get aroundThe Transport North East Day Ticket covers bus, Metro, rail and ferry services within Tyne and Wear for £6.00 per day, or £6.80 including County Durham and Northumberland.
  • Get aroundA ride from city centre to the airport in 2022 is around £15, and to the ferry terminal is £18.

From Wikivoyage: Newcastle upon Tyne, 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

    225 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    251 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    280 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    353 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 Walbottle – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Walbottle

Walbottle is 8 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Blaydontown in Tyneside, England, UK3.4 km
  • Newburndistrict in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom1.5 km
  • Rytontown in Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Throckleyvillage in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK1.7 km
  • Westerhopesuburb in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom1.9 km
  • East Dentonsuburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom2.9 km