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Alston

Alston is a small town in , North West . Alston lies within the North Pennines, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Alston is noted for its cobbled streets and 17th-century stone buildings.
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  • Type: Town with 1,110 residents
  • Description: town in Cumbria, England
  • Also known as: “Alston, Cumbria”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alston Town Hall and Alston railway station.

Town hall
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is a municipal building in Front Street, Alston, Cumbria, England. The town hall, which is currently used as a public library, is a Grade II listed building.

Railway station
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Alston is a heritage railway station on the South Tynedale Railway. The station, situated 13 miles south of Haltwhistle, is in the market town of Alston, in , England.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bayles and Ayle.

Hamlet
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet near Alston in , England.

Hamlet
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is a village in , England, situated to the north of Alston. There are six residences in the hamlet.

Hamlet
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is a small hamlet located at the foot of Hartside Fell between the town of Alston and the village of in the parish of in , England.

Alston

Latitude
54.8125° or 54° 48′ 45″ north
Longitude
-2.441° or 2° 26′ 28″ west
Population
1,110
Elevation
978 feet (298 metres)
United Nations Location Codes
GB ALS and GB CUJ
Open location code
9C6VRH65+XJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27587998
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2657427
Wiki­data ID
Q2560190
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Alston” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Alston”
  • Basque: “Alston (Cumbria)”
  • Basque: “Alston”
  • Bulgarian: “Алстон”
  • Cebuano: “Alston, Cumbria”
  • Chinese: “阿爾斯頓”
  • Dutch: “Alston”
  • French: “Alston”
  • German: “Alston”
  • Irish: “Alston, Cumbria”
  • Irish: “Alston”
  • Italian: “Alston”
  • Japanese: “アルストン (カンブリア)”
  • Ladin: “Alston”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alston i Cumbria”
  • Persian: “آلستون، کامبریا”
  • Polish: “Alston”
  • Portuguese: “Alston”
  • Romanian: “Alston, Cumbria”
  • Romanian: “Alston”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلستون، کامبریا”
  • Spanish: “Alston Cumbria”
  • Spanish: “Alston”
  • Swedish: “Alston, Cumbria”
  • Swedish: “Alston”
  • Ukrainian: “Алстон”
  • Ukrainian: “Альстон”
  • Volapük: “Alston”
  • Welsh: “Alston, Cumbria”
  • Welsh: “Alston”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Alston”. Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.