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Ashington

Ashington is a town in in northeast England, 18 miles north of Newcastle. It's a former mining district and now a commuter town, with a population of 28,000 in 2021.
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  • Type: Town with 28,300 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Northumberland, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Ashington, Northumberland”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wansbeck General Hospital and Ashington railway station.

Hospital
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is a district general hospital based in Ashington, , England. It is managed by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Railway station
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Ashington is a railway station on the Northumberland Line, which runs between and Ashington. The station serves the town of Ashington in , England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.

College
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is a further education college based in Ashington, , . The present site opened in 1957, and became the County Technical College in 1961, transformed again in 1987, becoming the of Arts and Technology, and finally settled upon its current status in 1995.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newbiggin-by-the-Sea and Stakeford.

Village
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is a seaside town and civil parish in , England, located on the coast. The town is a fishing port and formerly a part of a trade route for shipping grain. is situated 2½ miles east of Ashington.

Village
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is a large village in south east , England. Its about 17 miles north of . It lies south of the from Ashington, the nearest town.

Village
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is a large village and civil parish in , England. It is situated 5 miles to the south-east of , and north of . is situated 2½ miles southwest of Ashington.

Ashington

Latitude
55.1832° or 55° 10′ 60″ north
Longitude
-1.5703° or 1° 34′ 13″ west
Population
28,300
Elevation
112 feet (34 metres)
Open location code
9C7W5CMH+7V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 246698772
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7296747
Wiki­data ID
Q202348
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Ashington” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أشينغتون”
  • Armenian: “Աշինգտոն”
  • Asturian: “Ashington”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aşinqton”
  • Basque: “Ashington”
  • Belarusian: “Ашынгтан”
  • Bengali: “আসিংটন”
  • Catalan: “Ashington”
  • Cebuano: “Ashington (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Ashington”
  • Chinese: “Ashington”
  • Chinese: “瓦盛頓”
  • Chinese: “阿兴顿”
  • Chinese: “阿士頓”
  • Chinese: “阿興頓”
  • Danish: “Ashington”
  • Dutch: “Ashington”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اشينجتون”
  • Finnish: “Ashington”
  • French: “Ashington”
  • German: “Ashington”
  • Gujarati: “એશિંગટન”
  • Hebrew: “אשינגטון”
  • Irish: “Ashington”
  • Italian: “Ashington”
  • Japanese: “アシントン”
  • Japanese: “アッシントン”
  • Kannada: “ಆಶಿಂಗ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “애슁턴”
  • Ladin: “Ashington”
  • Lithuanian: “Ašingtonas”
  • Maltese: “Ashington”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ashington”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ashington”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ashington”
  • Persian: “اشینگتون”
  • Polish: “Ashington”
  • Portuguese: “Ashington”
  • Romanian: “Ashington”
  • Russian: “Ашингтон”
  • Silesian: “Ashington”
  • Slovenian: “Ashington, Anglija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اشینقتون”
  • Spanish: “Ashington”
  • Swedish: “Ashington”
  • Tamil: “ஆஷிங்டன்”
  • Telugu: “ఆశింగ్టన్”
  • Turkish: “Ashington”
  • Ukrainian: “Ашингтон”
  • Urdu: “اشینجٹن”
  • Urdu: “ایشنگٹن”
  • Volapük: “Ashington”
  • Welsh: “Ashington”

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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 “Ashington”. Photo: Mark Smiles, CC BY-SA 2.0.