Hexham
Hexham is a small market town in the Tyne valley of Northumberland, 24 miles west of Newcastle. It's an attractive place with a medieval abbey and jail, and a good base for exploring Hadrian's Wall to the north.
Photo: Dickpenn, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 12,000 residents
- Description: market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England
- Also known as: “Hexham Civil Parish”, “Hexham CP”, “Hexham, Northumberland”, and “ヘキサム”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hexham Abbey and Hexham railway station.
Hexham railway station
Railway station
Hexham Old Gaol
Museum
Photo: Stevenfruitsmaak, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Corbridge and Acomb.
Hexham
- Categories: market town, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.9715° or 54° 58′ 17″ north
Longitude
-2.1018° or 2° 6′ 7″ west
Population
12,000
Elevation
200 feet (61 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB HXH
Open location code
9C6VXVCX+H7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Hexham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هكسهام”
- Basque: “Hexham”
- Belarusian: “Хексем”
- Bengali: “হেক্সহ্যাম”
- Catalan: “Hexham”
- Cebuano: “Hexham”
- Chinese: “赫克瑟姆”
- Chinese: “赫斯咸”
- Cornish: “Hexham”
- Czech: “Hexham”
- Dutch: “Hexham”
- Esperanto: “Hexham”
- French: “Hexham”
- Galician: “Hexham”
- German: “Hexham”
- Greek: “Χέξαμ”
- Gujarati: “હેઝામ”
- Hebrew: “הקסהאם”
- Hungarian: “Hexham”
- Irish: “Hexham”
- Italian: “Hexham”
- Japanese: “ヘクサム”
- Kannada: “ಹೆಕ್ಸಾಮ್”
- Korean: “헥삼”
- Ladin: “Hexham”
- Latin: “Hagastaldunum”
- Lithuanian: “Heksamas”
- Lithuanian: “Heksemas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hexham”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hexham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hexham”
- Norwegian: “Hexham”
- Persian: “هکسهام”
- Polish: “Hexham”
- Portuguese: “Hexham”
- Romanian: “Hexham”
- Russian: “Хексем”
- Slovak: “Hexham”
- Slovenian: “Hexham, Anglija”
- South Azerbaijani: “هکسهام”
- Spanish: “Hexham”
- Swedish: “Hexham”
- Tamil: “ஹெஸ்ஹாம்”
- Telugu: “హఖ్సాహమ్”
- Ukrainian: “Гексем”
- Ukrainian: “Хексем”
- Urdu: “ہیکسم”
- Volapük: “Hexham”
- Welsh: “Hexham”
- “Hexham”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Oakwood and Low Gate.
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