Berwick-upon-Tweed
Berwick-upon-Tweed is a town in Northumberland, two miles south of the border with Scotland. Berwick is on the north bank of the Tweed and nowadays forms a combined town with Tweedmouth and Spittal on the south bank.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 12,000 residents
- Description: town in the county of Northumberland, England
- Also known as: “Berwick”, “Berwick on Tweed”, “Berwick upon Tweed”, “Berwick-on-Tweed”, “Berwick-Upon-Tweed”, and “Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland”
- Postal code: TD15
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shielfield Park and Berwick-upon-Tweed railway station.
Shielfield Park
Stadium
Photo: David Neill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shielfield Park is a football stadium that is home to Berwick Rangers and Berwick Bandits speedway team. Although Berwick Rangers is a Scottish Lowland Football League club, Shielfield Park is situated in the English county of Northumberland.
Berwick-upon-Tweed railway station
Railway station
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Berwick-upon-Tweed is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley. The station, situated 67 miles north-west of Newcastle, serves the border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland, England.
Berwick Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Berwick Town Hall is a municipal facility in Marygate, Berwick-upon-Tweed, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council, is a Grade I listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tweedmouth and Scremerston.
Tweedmouth
Suburb
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tweedmouth is part of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland, England. It is located on the south bank of the River Tweed and is connected to Berwick town centre, on the north bank, by two road bridges and a railway bridge.
Scremerston
Village
Photo: Russel Wills, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Scremerston is a village in Northumberland, England. The village lies on the North Sea coast just under 2.5 miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed and 4.3 miles from the Anglo-Scottish border. Scremerston is situated 2 miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Spittal
Village
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Spittal is a village in northern Northumberland, England. It is part of Berwick-upon-Tweed and is situated on the coast to the east of Tweedmouth. Spittal Beach is considered one of the best beaches in Northumberland.
Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Categories: civil parish, fortified town, and locality
- Location: Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.7692° or 55° 46′ 9″ northLongitude
-2.0026° or 2° 0′ 10″ westPopulation
12,000Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BWKOpen location code
9C7VQX9W+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 20962688OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Frisian—“Berwick-upon-Tweed” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բերվիք ափոն Թուիդ”
- Asturian: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Basque: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Belarusian: “Бервік-апан-Туід”
- Belarusian: “Бэрвік-на-Твідзе”
- Bengali: “বেরভিক আপন টুয়েড”
- Breton: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Catalan: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Cebuano: “Berwick-Upon-Tweed”
- Chinese: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Chinese: “巴域”
- Chinese: “特威德河畔貝里克鎮”
- Chinese: “特威德河畔贝里克”
- Chinese: “特韋德河畔伯立克”
- Chinese: “特韦德河畔伯立克”
- Czech: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Danish: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Dutch: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيرويك ابون تويد”
- Esperanto: “Berwick-on-Tweed”
- Esperanto: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Estonian: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Finnish: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- French: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- German: “Berwick upon Tweed”
- German: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Greek: “Μπέρικ-απόν-Τουίντ”
- Gujarati: “બરવિક-અપોન-ટ્વીડ”
- Hebrew: “בריק על הטוויד”
- Hungarian: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Ido: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Indonesian: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Irish: “Bearaig-a-Deas”
- Italian: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Japanese: “バーウィック・アボン・ツイード”
- Japanese: “バーウィック・アポン・ツイード”
- Japanese: “バーウィック・アポン・トゥィード”
- Japanese: “ベリック・アポン・ツィード”
- Japanese: “ベリック・アポン・ツイード”
- Japanese: “ベリック・アポン・ティード”
- Japanese: “ベリック・アポン・トゥィード”
- Japanese: “ベリック=アポン=ツイード”
- Kannada: “ಬರ್ವಿಕ್ -ಆನ್-ಟ್ವೀಡ್”
- Kazakh: “Берик-апон-Туид”
- Korean: “베릭 어폰 트위드”
- Korean: “베릭어폰트위드”
- Ladin: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Latin: “Abrevicum”
- Latin: “Barvicus”
- Latin: “Berwicus”
- Latin: “Borcovicum”
- Latin: “Tuesis”
- Lithuanian: “Berikas prie Tvido”
- Macedonian: “Берик на Твид”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Berwick-upon-Tweed (Northumberland)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Berwick”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Norwegian: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Berewic”
- Persian: “برویک-آپون-توئید”
- Persian: “برویک-آپون-توید”
- Polish: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Portuguese: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Romanian: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Russian: “Бервик на Твиде”
- Russian: “Бервик-апон-Твид”
- Russian: “Бервик-на-Твиде”
- Russian: “Бервик”
- Russian: “Берик-апон-Туид”
- Scots: “Barwick”
- Scots: “Berik”
- Scots: “Berrick”
- Scots: “Berwick Upon Tweed”
- Scots: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Scots: “Sou Barwick”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bearaig a Deas”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bearaig-a-Deas”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bearaig”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Slovak: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Slovenian: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- South Azerbaijani: “برویک-آپون-توئید”
- Spanish: “Berwick upon Tweed”
- Spanish: “Berwick upon-Tweed”
- Spanish: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Spanish: “Berwick”
- Swedish: “Berwick upon Tweed”
- Swedish: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Tamil: “பெருவிக் -அபோன்-டிவீட்”
- Telugu: “బెర్విక్-అపాన్-ట్వీడ్”
- Thai: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Thai: “เบริก-อะพอน-ทวีด”
- Thai: “เบริค-อัพพอน-ทวีด”
- Thai: “เบริคอัพพอนทวีด”
- Ukrainian: “Бервік-апон-Твід”
- Urdu: “بیرویک-وپون-تویید”
- Vietnamese: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Volapük: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- Welsh: “Berwick-upon-Tweed, Berwick”
- Welsh: “Caerferwig”
- Western Frisian: “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
- “Berwick-upon-Tweed”
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