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.
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 12,000 residents
- Description: market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England
- Also known as: “Hexham Civil Parish”, “Hexham CP”, and “Hexham, Northumberland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hexham Abbey and Hexham railway station.
Hexham Abbey
Church
Photo: Bob Castle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hexham Abbey is a Grade I listed church dedicated to St Andrew, in the town of Hexham, Northumberland, in the North East of England. Originally built in AD 674, the Abbey was built up during the 12th century into its current form, with additions around the turn of the 20th century.
Hexham railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hexham is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between Newcastle and Carlisle. The station serves the market town of Hexham, in Northumberland, England; it is situated 22 miles 22 chains west of Newcastle.
Hexham Old Gaol
Museum
Photo: Stevenfruitsmaak, Public domain.
The Old Gaol, also known as the Manor Office, is a custodial building in Hallgate in Hexham, Northumberland, England. The building, which now operates as a museum, is a Grade I listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Corbridge and Acomb.
Corbridge
Acomb
Village
Photo: Ann Hodgson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Acomb is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. The village lies 1.5 miles north of Hexham, its post town. As well as the village itself, the parish covers surrounding rural areas, with the southern boundary of the parish being the River Tyne.
Anick
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Anick is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sandhoe, in Northumberland, England, situated to the north of Hexham. In 1881 the parish had a population of 153.
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″ northLongitude
-2.1018° or 2° 6′ 7″ westPopulation
12,000Elevation
200 feet (61 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HXHOpen location code
9C6VXVCX+H7OpenStreetMap ID
node 306241158OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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: “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: “ヘキサム”
- 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: “ہیزہام”
- Volapük: “Hexham”
- Welsh: “Hexham”
- “Hexham”
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