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Morpeth

Morpeth is a market town on the River Wansbeck in in northeast England, with a population in 2021 of 14,400. Its main sight is the chantry and bagpipes museum.
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  • Type: Town with 14,000 residents
  • Description: town in Northumberland, England
  • Also known as: “Morpeth, Northumberland”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Morpeth Castle and Morpeth railway station.

Castle
Photo: C G Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building at Morpeth, , in northeast . It has been restored by the Landmark Trust and is now available as a holiday rental home.

Railway station
Photo: Tagishsimon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Morpeth is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between and . The station, situated 16 miles 50 chains north of Newcastle, serves the historic market town of Morpeth, Northumberland, England.

Town hall
Photo: Sic19, CC0.
is a municipal building in the Market Place, Morpeth, Northumberland, England. The structure, which was the meeting place of Morpeth Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pegswood and Choppington.

Village
Photo: Graham Robson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a historic mining village and civil parish in , England, and the site of the former Colliery. is two miles east of Morpeth and three miles west of , with a population of around 3,280.

Village
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a large village and civil parish in , England. It is situated 5 miles to the south-east of Morpeth, and north of . is situated 4 miles east of Morpeth.

Village
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is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in the county of , England, about 1 mile south west of Morpeth.

Morpeth

Latitude
55.1675° or 55° 10′ 3″ north
Longitude
-1.6907° or 1° 41′ 27″ west
Population
14,000
Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB MOR
Open location code
9C7W5895+2P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20919048
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2642182
Wiki­data ID
Q736785
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Morpeth” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Morpeth”
  • Basque: “Morpeth”
  • Belarusian: “Морпет”
  • Bengali: “মরপেত”
  • Catalan: “Morpeth”
  • Cebuano: “Morpeth”
  • Chinese: “Morpeth”
  • Chinese: “莫珀斯”
  • Czech: “Morpeth”
  • Dutch: “Morpeth”
  • French: “Morpeth”
  • German: “Morpeth”
  • Gujarati: “મોર્પેથ”
  • Hebrew: “מורפת‘”
  • Irish: “Morpeth, Northumberland”
  • Irish: “Morpeth”
  • Italian: “Morpeth”
  • Japanese: “モーペス (ノーサンバーランド)”
  • Japanese: “モーペス”
  • Kannada: “ಮರ್ಪೆತ್”
  • Korean: “모페스”
  • Ladin: “Morpeth”
  • Latin: “Morpitium”
  • Latvian: “Morpeta”
  • Lithuanian: “Morpetas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Morpeth”
  • Northern Frisian: “Morpeth”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Morpeth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Morpeth”
  • Norwegian: “Morpeth”
  • Ossetian: “Морпет”
  • Persian: “مورپث، نورث‌آمبرلند”
  • Polish: “Morpeth”
  • Portuguese: “Morpeth, Northumberland”
  • Portuguese: “Morpeth, Nortúmbria”
  • Portuguese: “Morpeth”
  • Quechua: “Morpeth”
  • Romanian: “Morpeth”
  • Russian: “Морпет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Morpeth”
  • Slovenian: “Morpeth”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مورپث، نورث‌آمبرلند”
  • Spanish: “Morpeth”
  • Swedish: “Morpeth”
  • Tamil: “மோர்ப்பேத்”
  • Telugu: “మొర్పెత్త్”
  • Turkish: “Morpeth, Northumberland”
  • Ukrainian: “Морпет”
  • Urdu: “مورپیتھ”
  • Volapük: “Morpeth”
  • Welsh: “Morpeth, Northumberland”
  • Welsh: “Morpeth”
  • Western Frisian: “Morpeth”

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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 “Morpeth”. Photo: Graham Robson, CC BY-SA 2.0.