Beaufront Castle
Beaufront Castle is a privately owned 19th-century country house near Hexham, Northumberland, England. It is a Grade I listed building. A pele tower was recorded at Beaufront in 1415.Photo: P Glenwright, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sandhoe Hall and Coria.
Sandhoe Hall
Building
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Sandhoe Hall, also once known as Sandhoe House, is a 19th-century country house situated at Sandhoe, Northumberland. It is a Grade II listed building. The Sandhoe estate was owned by the Errington family of nearby Beaufront, but when Henry Errington died childless in 1819, it passed to his great-grandnephew Rowland Stanley of Puddington Hall, Cheshire, son of Sir Thomas Stanley Bt. Sandhoe Hall is situated 2,000 feet northeast of Beaufront Castle.
Coria
Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coria was a fort and town 2.5 miles south of Hadrian's Wall, in the Roman province of Britannia. It was strategically located on the junction of a major Roman north–south road with the River Tyne and the Roman Stanegate road, which was also the first frontier line which ran east–west between Coria and Luguvalium. Coria is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Beaufront Castle.
Aydon Castle
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Aydon Castle, previously sometimes called Aydon Hall, is a fortified manor house at Aydon near to the town of Corbridge, Northumberland, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and is designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. Aydon Castle is situated 2½ miles east of Beaufront Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anick and Corbridge.
Anick
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Anick is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sandhoe, in Northumberland, England, situated to the north of Hexham. In 1881 the parish had a population of 153.
Corbridge
Acomb
Village
Photo: Ann Hodgson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Acomb is a village in the south of Northumberland, England. The population at the 2001 Census was 1,184 increasing to 1,268 at the 2011 Census. It is situated to the north of Hexham, not far from the junction of the A69 road and A6079 road. Acomb is situated 2 miles west of Beaufront Castle.
Beaufront Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: Grade I listed castle in Northumberland, England, UK
- Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Sandhoe, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.98818° or 54° 59′ 17″ northLongitude
-2.05794° or 2° 3′ 29″ westElevation
404 feet (123 metres)Open location code
9C6VXWQR+7ROpenStreetMap ID
way 126352228OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleGeoNames ID
6287978Wikidata ID
Q4877490
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Beaufront Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Beaufront Castle”
- Danish: “Beaufront Castle”
- Swedish: “Beaufront Castle”
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