Kielder
Kielder is a small, remote village in western Northumberland, England. Located at the head of Kielder Water and in the north west of Kielder Forest, the village is within three miles of the Scottish border.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 200 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Northumberland, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Kielder, Northumberland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Kielder Tavern and United Reformed Church.
Kielder Viaduct
Bridge
Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kielder Viaduct consists of seven semi-circular masonry skew arches and was built in 1862 by the North British Railway to carry the Border Counties Line across marshy land, which following flooding to create Kielder Water, became the place where Deadwater Burn joins Bakethin Reservoir.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Deadwater and Plashetts.
Deadwater
Locality
Photo: The Boy that time forgot, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Deadwater is a small settlement in Northumberland, England, about 3 miles north west of Kielder, Northumberland, on the English side of the border between Scotland and England. Deadwater is situated 2½ miles northwest of Kielder.
Plashetts
Locality
Plashetts is a small settlement in Northumberland, in England south east of Kielder, Northumberland. It is about 22 miles north west of Hexham. Part of the settlement is now beneath the surface of Kielder Water. Plashetts is situated 2½ miles southeast of Kielder.
Saughtree
Hamlet
Saughtree is a hamlet in the Scottish Borders at the junction of the B6357 and an unnamed road from Kielder village in Northumberland, England. It is at the confluence of the Liddel Water and Dawston Burn, in Liddesdale. Saughtree is situated 4½ miles northwest of Kielder.
Kielder
- Categories: village and civil parish
- Location: Kielder, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Kielder” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kielder”
- Chinese: “Kielder”
- Dutch: “Kielder”
- French: “Kielder”
- Irish: “Kielder”
- Ladin: “Kielder”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kielder”
- Persian: “کیلدر، نورثآمبرلند”
- Polish: “Kielder”
- Swedish: “Kielder”
- Welsh: “Kielder, Northumberland”
- Welsh: “Kielder”
- “Kielder”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kielder Forest and Water and Kershope Castle.
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