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Hexham

Hexham is a small market town in the Tyne valley of , 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 northwest.
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  • 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 Old Gaol.

Church
Photo: Bob Castle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Grade I listed church dedicated to St Andrew, in the town of Hexham, , in the 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.

Museum
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The Old Gaol, also known as the Manor Office, is a custodial building in Hallgate in Hexham, , England. The building, which now operates as a museum, is a Grade I listed building.

Railway station
Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hexham is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between and via Hexham. The station, situated 22 miles 22 chains west of Newcastle, serves the market town of Hexham in , England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Corbridge and Acomb.

Photo: RHaworth, CC BY 2.5.
is a village in the Tyne valley of , 16 miles west of Newcastle and 4 miles east of Hexham. It's an attractive small place and the main reasons to visit are to see the Roman town of Coria, and to explore Hadrian's Wall further north.

Village
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is a village in the south of , England. The population at the 2001 Census was 1,184 increasing to 1,268 at the 2011 Census. It is situated to the north of Hexham, not far from the junction of the A69 road and A6079 road.

Hamlet
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is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in , England, situated to the north of Hexham. In 1881 the parish had a population of 153.

Hexham

Latitude
54.9715° or 54° 58′ 17″ north
Longitude
-2.1018° or 2° 6′ 7″ west
Population
12,000
Elevation
200 feet (61 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HXH
Open location code
9C6VXVCX+H7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 306241158
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647007
Wiki­data ID
Q947400
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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”
  • Slovenian: “Hexham, Anglija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هکسهام”
  • Spanish: “Hexham”
  • Swedish: “Hexham”
  • Tamil: “ஹெஸ்ஹாம்”
  • Telugu: “హఖ్సాహమ్”
  • Ukrainian: “Гексем”
  • Ukrainian: “Хексем”
  • Urdu: “ہیزہام”
  • Volapük: “Hexham”
  • Welsh: “Hexham”

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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 “Hexham”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.