Longhoughton
Longhoughton is a small rural village in Northumberland, England. It lies near the coast, about 4.5 miles northeast of Alnwick, in the similarly named parish of Longhoughton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,380 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Northumberland, UK
- Also known as: “Long Houghton” and “Longhoughton, Northumberland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of Saints Peter and Paul and RAF Boulmer.
RAF Boulmer
Military installation
Photo: Stuart Meek, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Royal Air Force Boulmer or more simply RAF Boulmer is a Royal Air Force station near Alnwick in Northumberland, England, and is home to the Air Command and Control Force, 19 Sqn - Control and Reporting Centre Boulmer, 20 Sqn - Operational Conversion Unit and 144 Signals Unit.
Longhoughton Quarry
Quarry
Photo: Russel Wills, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Longhoughton Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in north Northumberland in North East England. The site is a now disused quarry which yielded whinstone, a hard dark rock associated in Northumberland with the Whin Sill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Littlehoughton and Boulmer.
Boulmer
Village
Photo: John Sutton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boulmer is a village in Northumberland, England, on the North Sea coast east of Alnwick. It is home to RAF Boulmer. Boulmer has an independent volunteer lifeboat station.
Lesbury
Village
Lesbury is a small rural village in Northumberland in the north of England. It is built on the main coastal road 3.5 miles southeast of Alnwick, on the north bank of the River Aln. Alnmouth railway station is about half a mile away. Lesbury is situated 2 miles south of Longhoughton.
Longhoughton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Longhoughton, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.42994° or 55° 25′ 48″ northLongitude
-1.61508° or 1° 36′ 54″ westPopulation
1,380Elevation
148 feet (45 metres)Open location code
9C7WC9HM+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 251059667OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2643676Wikidata ID
Q2626441
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Longhoughton” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Longhoughton”
- Bulgarian: “Лонгхоугхтон”
- Cebuano: “Longhoughton”
- Chinese: “Longhoughton”
- Dutch: “Longhoughton”
- French: “Longhoughton”
- Irish: “Longhoughton”
- Ladin: “Longhoughton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Longhoughton”
- Persian: “لانگهوتون، نورثآمبرلند”
- Polish: “Longhoughton”
- Swedish: “Longhoughton”
- Turkish: “Longhoughton”
- Welsh: “Longhoughton, Northumberland”
- Welsh: “Longhoughton”
- “Longhoughton”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Longhoughton Church of England Primary School and Westfield Park.
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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 “Longhoughton”. Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.