Wylam
Wylam is a village and civil parish in the county of Northumberland, England. It is located about 10 miles west of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is famous for the being the birthplace of George Stephenson, one of the early railway pioneers. George Stephenson's Birthplace, his cottage, can be found on the north bank of the Tyne 1 mile east of the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Newbiggin Hall Scouts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,410 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Northumberland, UK
- Also known as: “Wylam, Northumberland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Oswin and Black Bull.
Wylam railway station
Railway station
Photo: RHaworth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wylam is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between Newcastle and Carlisle via Hexham. The station, situated 9 miles 71 chains west of Newcastle, serves the village of Wylam in Northumberland, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clara Vale and Crawcrook.
Clara Vale
Village
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Clara Vale is a village situated on the south bank of the River Tyne in Tyne and Wear, England. Once an independent village in County Durham it became incorporated into the new metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear in 1974 as part of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead.
Crawcrook
Village
Crawcrook is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England. The population taken at the 2021 Census of the Gateshead ward was 9,058, increasing from 8,841 in 2011. The village is historically part of County Durham.
Prudhoe
Photo: Glen Bowman, CC BY 2.0.
Prudhoe is a town in Northumberland in northeast England. With a population of 10,300 in 2021, it's the largest of a string of villages along the lower Tyne valley.
Wylam
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Wylam, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.97697° or 54° 58′ 37″ northLongitude
-1.82228° or 1° 49′ 20″ westPopulation
1,410Elevation
85 feet (26 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WYMOpen location code
9C6WX5GH+Q3OpenStreetMap ID
node 29270331OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Frisian—“Wylam” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Wylam”
- Cebuano: “Wylam”
- Chinese: “Wylam-on-Tyne”
- Chinese: “威南”
- Chinese: “怀勒姆”
- Chinese: “維拉姆”
- Chinese: “维拉姆”
- Czech: “Wylam”
- Dutch: “Wylam-on-Tyne”
- French: “Wylam”
- German: “Wylam”
- Irish: “Wylam”
- Italian: “Wylam”
- Japanese: “ウィラム”
- Japanese: “ワイラム”
- Ladin: “Wylam”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wylam-on-Tyne”
- Persian: “وایلم”
- Polish: “Wylam”
- Portuguese: “Wylam”
- Slovenian: “Wylam”
- Swedish: “Wylam”
- Turkish: “Wylam”
- Ukrainian: “Вайлем”
- Welsh: “Wylam”
- Western Frisian: “Wylam-on-Tyne”
- “Wylam”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bradley Hall and West Wylam.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Oswin’s Church Hall and Wylam Post Office.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wylam”. Photo: Newbiggin Hall Scouts, CC BY-SA 2.0.