Amble
Amble is a fishing village on the Northumberland coast, about 30 miles north of Newcastle. It's a quiet place with a population of 5900 in 2021. The main attraction is seeing the bird life on Coquet Island a mile offshore.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 6,030 residents
- Description: town and seaport in the civil parish of Amble by the Sea, on the North Sea coast of Northumberland, England
- Also known as: “Amble, Northumberland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Warkworth Castle and Coquet Island.
Warkworth Castle
Warkworth Castle is a ruined medieval castle in Warkworth in the English county of Northumberland. The village and castle occupy a loop of the River Coquet, less than a mile from England's north-east coast.
Coquet Island
Nature reserve
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Coquet Island is a small island of about 6 hectares, situated 1.2 kilometres off Amble on the Northumberland coast, northeast England. It is included in the civil parish of Hauxley.
Coquet Island Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Coquet Island is a small island of about 6 hectares, situated 1.2 kilometres off Amble on the Northumberland coast, northeast England. It is included in the civil parish of Hauxley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alnmouth and Warkworth.
Alnmouth
Photo: BazzaDaRambler, CC BY 2.0.
Alnmouth is a village on the coast of Northumberland in northeast England, at the outflow of the River Aln. With a population of 444 in 2021, Alnmouth is pronounced 'Allen-mouth', whereas nearby Alnwick is "Annick".
Warkworth
Village
Photo: AndrewMcQ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Warkworth is a village in Northumberland, England. It is probably best known for its well-preserved medieval castle, church and hermitage. The population of Warkworth was 1,574 in 2011, increasing to 1,772 at the 2021 Census.
Acklington
Village
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Acklington is a small village in Northumberland, England. It is situated to the south-west of Amble, inland from the North Sea coast. It is served by Acklington railway station. Acklington is situated 2½ miles southwest of Amble.
Amble
- Category: locality
- Location: Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.3338° or 55° 20′ 2″ northLongitude
-1.5839° or 1° 35′ 2″ westPopulation
6,030Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB AMBOpen location code
9C7W8CM8+GCOpenStreetMap ID
node 246699512OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Amble” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أمبل”
- Asturian: “Amble”
- Basque: “Amble”
- Belarusian: “Амбл”
- Bengali: “সমুদ্রে এম্বল”
- Bulgarian: “Амбле”
- Cebuano: “Amble”
- Chinese: “Amble”
- Chinese: “安布”
- Dutch: “Amble”
- Egyptian Arabic: “امبل”
- French: “Amble”
- German: “Amble”
- Gujarati: “એમ્બલ”
- Irish: “Amble”
- Italian: “Amble by the Sea”
- Japanese: “アンブル・バイ・ザ・シー”
- Kannada: “ಆಮ್ಬ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “암블 바이 더 시”
- Ladin: “Amble”
- Lithuanian: “Amblas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Amble”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amble”
- Persian: “امبل، نورثآمبرلند”
- Polish: “Amble by the Sea”
- Polish: “Amble”
- Portuguese: “Amble”
- Romanian: “Amble”
- Russian: “Амбл”
- Slovenian: “Amble”
- South Azerbaijani: “امبل، نورثآمبرلند”
- Spanish: “Amble”
- Swedish: “Amble”
- Tamil: “ஆம்பளே”
- Telugu: “అమ్బ్లె”
- Urdu: “امبلی”
- Vietnamese: “Amble, Chikmagalur”
- Vietnamese: “Amble”
- Welsh: “Amble”
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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 “Amble”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.