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Akeld

Akeld

Akeld is a village and civil parish in , England. It is situated around 2.7 miles to the west of Wooler and 9.3 miles from the border with Scotland at .
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  • Type: Hamlet with 71 residents
  • Description: a village located in Northumberland, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Akeld, Northumberland”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Coupland Castle and Yeavering Bell.

Castle
Photo: Lisa Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is situated in the village of , 4 miles to the north-west of , , . It is a Grade I listed building. The Grade I listed "castle" is actually a tower house "built after 1584, with irregular later additions". is situated 1½ miles northwest of Akeld.

Peak
is a twin-peaked hill near the River Glen in north , England, to the west of , and forming part of the . is situated 1½ miles west of Akeld.

Archaeological site
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an archaeological site, which is situated 2 miles southeast of Akeld.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yeavering and Coupland.

Hamlet
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in the north-east corner of the civil parish of in the English county of . It is located on the River Glen at the northern edge of the .

Hamlet
Photo: Lisa Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ewart, in , England. It is on the north bank of the River Glen about 4 miles to the northwest of Wooler. In 1951 the parish had a population of 216.

Photo: habiloid, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town in , on a lowland route into Scotland that skirts the , with a population of 2000 in 2021. "Situated in an ill-cultivated country under the influence of vast mountains, from whence it is subject to impetuous rains" was the Norman conquerors' dismal assessment of it in 1107.

Akeld

Latitude
55.56078° or 55° 33′ 39″ north
Longitude
-2.06974° or 2° 4′ 11″ west
Population
71
Elevation
184 feet (56 metres)
Open location code
9C7VHW6J+84
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2468530298
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
2657579
Wiki­data ID
Q780359
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Akeld” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Akeld”
  • Cebuano: “Akeld”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاکێڵد”
  • Chinese: “Akeld”
  • Dutch: “Akeld”
  • French: “Akeld”
  • Irish: “Akeld”
  • Italian: “Akeld”
  • Ladin: “Akeld”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Akeld”
  • Persian: “آکلد”
  • Polish: “Akeld”
  • Swedish: “Akeld”
  • Turkish: “Akeld”
  • Welsh: “Akeld”
  • “Akeld”

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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 “Akeld”. Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0.