Featherstone
Featherstone is a village in Northumberland, England about 17 miles west of Hexham, and about 3 kilometres south of Greenhead.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Margaret Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 121 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Northumberland, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Featherstone, Northumberland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Featherstone Castle and Bellister Castle.
Featherstone Castle
Castle
Photo: Margaret Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Featherstone Castle, a Grade I listed building, is a large Gothic style country mansion situated on the bank of the River South Tyne about 3 miles southwest of the town of Haltwhistle in Northumberland, England.
Bellister Castle
Castle
Photo: Anthony Parkes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bellister Castle is a National Trust owned castellated 19th-century mansion house attached to the ruinous remains of a 14th-century tower house, near Haltwhistle, Northumberland, England.
Haltwhistle railway station
Railway station
Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, Public domain.
Haltwhistle is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between Newcastle and Carlisle via Hexham. The station, situated 22 miles 66 chains east of Carlisle, serves the market town of Haltwhistle in Northumberland, England. Haltwhistle railway station is situated 2 miles northeast of Featherstone.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haltwhistle and Coanwood.
Haltwhistle
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
Haltwhistle is a market town in Northumberland, along the route between Newcastle and Carlisle, with a population of 4650 in 2021. It contrived to be named for a railway halt over 600 years before that railway arrived: Hautwysel means a hill between two forks of a river. Hadrian's Wall is the main reason to visit, the Roman frontier defence built in 122 AD.
Coanwood
Hamlet
Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coanwood is a village in Northumberland, England, and is part of the Parish of Haltwhistle. It is about four miles to the south-west of Haltwhistle, on the South Tyne.
Lambley
Village
Photo: Brian Norman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lambley, formerly known as Harper Town, is a village in the civil parish of Coanwood, in Northumberland, England about four miles southwest of Haltwhistle.
Featherstone
- Categories: village and civil parish
- Location: Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Featherstone” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Featherstone”
- Chinese: “Featherstone”
- Dutch: “Featherstone”
- French: “Featherstone”
- Irish: “Featherstone”
- Ladin: “Featherstone”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Featherstone (Northumberland)”
- Polish: “Featherstone”
- Swedish: “Featherstone, Northumberland”
- Welsh: “Featherstone, Northumberland”
- Welsh: “Featherstone”
- “Featherstone”
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