Kirkheaton
Kirkheaton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Capheaton, in the county of Northumberland, England. The village lies about 10 miles north east of Hexham and about 5 miles west of Belsay. In 1951 the parish had a population of 70.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: P Glenwright, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Northumberland, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Kirkheaton, Northumberland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Bartholomew and Capheaton Hall.
Capheaton Hall
Building
Photo: John Preston Neale, Public domain.
Capheaton Hall, near Wallington, Northumberland, is an English country house, the seat of the Swinburne Baronets and a childhood home of the poet Algernon Swinburne. Capheaton Hall is situated 2½ miles northeast of Kirkheaton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kirkharle and Bavington Crags.
Kirkharle
Hamlet
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirkharle is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kirkwhelpington, in the county of Northumberland in Northern England located about 12 miles west of the town of Morpeth, just to the west of the crossroads of the A696 and B6342 roads. Kirkharle is situated 3 miles north of Kirkheaton.
Bavington Crags
Locality
Bavington Crags is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in north Northumberland, England. The site is an outcropping of the Whin Sill which gives rise to distinctive flora particular to the thin soil conditions on this bedrock. Bavington Crags is situated 3 miles northwest of Kirkheaton.
Matfen
Village
Photo: Stephen Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Matfen is a village and a civil parish in Northumberland, England, near the town of Hexham and the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is an example of a 19th-century planned estate village. Matfen is situated 3½ miles south of Kirkheaton.
Kirkheaton
- Category: locality
- Location: Matfen, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.09136° or 55° 5′ 29″ northLongitude
-1.97092° or 1° 58′ 15″ westElevation
741 feet (226 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB K3TOpen location code
9C7W32RH+GJOpenStreetMap ID
node 310919463OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2645274Wikidata ID
Q6415680
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Kirkheaton” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Kirkheaton, Northumberland”
- Irish: “Kirkheaton”
- Polish: “Kirkheaton (Northumberland)”
- Polish: “Kirkheaton”
- Swedish: “Kirkheaton, Northumberland”
- Swedish: “Kirkheaton”
- Welsh: “Kirkheaton, Northumberland”
- Welsh: “Kirkheaton”
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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 “Kirkheaton”. Photo: P Glenwright, CC BY-SA 2.0.