Wetheral
Wetheral is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the historic county of Cumberland but now in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England.
Wetheral is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the historic county of Cumberland but now in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. At the 2001 census, the population of the Wetheral Ward was 4,039, The civil parish of Wetheral is slightly larger, with a population of 6,293 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Wetheral
7 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.
- 01Corby Castle
Corby Castle is a Grade I listed building and ancestral home of a cadet branch of the prominent Howard family situated on the southern edge of the village of Great Corby in northern Cumbria, England.
200 m · tower house in Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Our Lady and St. Wilfrid's Roman Catholic church, Warwick Bridge
Our Lady and St Wilfrid's Church is a Roman Catholic church designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, completed in 1841. The church was designed for the Sarum Rite, and contains an Easter Sepulchre.
2.7 km · church in Warwick Bridge, Cumbria, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Wetheral Priory Gatehouse
Wetheral Priory Gatehouse is a 15th-century stone fortification in Wetheral, Cumbria. The priory was founded at the start of the 12th century and the gatehouse controlled the entrance to its outer courtyard.
100 m · Grade I listed building in Wetheral, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Warwick Hall
Warwick Hall is a large country house located on the banks of the River Eden at Warwick-on-Eden in Cumbria, England, United Kingdom.
2.7 km · building in Wetheral, Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Holme Eden Abbey
Holme Eden Abbey is a house built on the site of an abbey in Cumbria, England. The current building is a Grade II* listed building.
2.8 km · country house, formerly a Benedictine abbey, in Warwick Bridge, Cumbria, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Corby Viaduct
Corby Viaduct is a railway bridge built to carry the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway over the Corby Beck near Great Corby, in the parish of Wetheral, to the east of Carlisle in north-western England. One of the largest structures on the route, it is a grade II listed building.
800 m · railway bridge near Carlisle, England · Wikipedia - 07Corby Bridge
Corby Bridge is a railway viaduct adjacent to and immediately east of Wetheral railway station at Wetheral, near Carlisle, in north-western England, begun in 1830 and completed in 1834. It is 920 feet long and 100 feet high, and has been a Grade I listed building since 1 April 1957.
400 m · railway viaduct near Carlisle, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wetheral
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 75 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 124 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 131 km
- Stations
- Wetheral railway station, 500 m
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Wetheral79 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–11
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Wetheral122 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £15–20
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Wetheral132 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £15–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Wetheral
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 Wetheral. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA75 runs from Stranraer (for the Belfast and Larne ferries) via Dumfries.
- Get inBuses no longer run along the Solway coast from Stranraer ferry port, you have to double back via Glasgow, Borders Bus X95 runs from Edinburgh along A7 via Galashiels, Selkirk, Hawick and Longtown.
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Next door to Wetheral
- Warwick Bridgevillage in Cumbria, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Scotbyvillage in Cumbria, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Warwick-on-Edenvillage in Cumbria, England, UK2.4 km
- Cumwhintonvillage in Cumbria, United Kingdom3.6 km
- Great Corbyvillage in Cumbria, United Kingdom600 m
- Aglionbyvillage in Cumbria, United Kingdom3.1 km