Lilburn
Lilburn is a small village in Northumberland, England. It is located on the edge of the Cheviots. The local farming estate is centred on Lilburn Tower. The area is noted for its large number of earthworks and remains of prehistoric settlements.Photo: Tagishsimon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 116 residents
- Description: village in Northumberland, England, UK
- Also known as: “Lilburn, Northumberland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lilburn Tower and Hepburn Bastle.
Lilburn Tower
Building
Photo: William Stafford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lilburn Tower is a privately owned 19th-century mansion house at Lilburn, near Wooler, Northumberland. The property is a Grade II* listed building and forms part of the Lilburn Estate.
Hepburn Bastle
Ruins
Photo: William Stafford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hepburn Bastle is a ruins, which is situated 2½ miles east of Lilburn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wooler and Chillingham.
Wooler
Photo: habiloid, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wooler is a town in Northumberland, on a lowland route into Scotland that skirts the Cheviot Hills, 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.
Chillingham
Village
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chillingham is a village in Northumberland, England. It is situated approximately 6 km to the east of Wooler, south of Chatton. At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100.
Hepburn
Hamlet
Hepburn is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Chillingham in the county of Northumberland, England. In 1951 the parish had a population of 43. Hepburn is situated 2½ miles east of Lilburn.
Lilburn
- 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—“Lilburn” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lilburn”
- Chinese: “Lilburn”
- Dutch: “Lilburn”
- French: “Lilburn”
- Irish: “Lilburn”
- Ladin: “Lilburn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lilburn (Northumberland)”
- Persian: “لیلبرن، نورثآمبرلند”
- Polish: “Lilburn”
- Swedish: “Lilburn, Northumberland”
- Swedish: “Lilburn”
- Welsh: “Lilburn, Northumberland”
- Welsh: “Lilburn”
- “Lilburn”
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Highlights include Chillingham Castle and Roseden Edge.
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