Whickham
Worth seeing in and around Whickham
10 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.
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- 07St Stephen's Church, Low Elswick
Grade II listed church in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
3.1 km · Wikipedia - 08
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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.
Getting to Whickham
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 10 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 120 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 155 km
- Stations
- Blaydon railway station, 3.2 km · Dunston railway station, 2.3 km · MetroCentre railway station, 1.7 km · Bensham railway station, 3.7 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Whickham128 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £15–20
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Whickham153 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £19–25
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Whickham167 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · £21–28
- 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 Whickham
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 Whickham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Whickham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Whickham
Whickham is 5 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Blaydontown in Tyneside, England, UK3.3 km
- Dunstonarea of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead2.5 km
- Winlatonvillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK3.2 km
- Sunnisidevillage in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom2.2 km
- Marley Hillvillage in Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom3.2 km
- Swalwellvillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK1.1 km