Green Grove

Green Grove is a locality in Thirlwall, Northumberland, England. Green Grove is situated near the locality Gilsland Spa, as well as near Common House.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Popping Stone and St Mary Magdalene’s Church, Gilsland.

Popping Stone

Stone

The Popping Stone is a group of three rounded boulders in the Irthing Gorge near the village of Gilsland. It was not always this shape, however, and photographs from before 1870 show a single, much larger stone that must have been drastically altered soon after this date.

St Mary Magdalene’s Church, Gilsland

Church

Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Mary Magdalene’s Church is a small mid-Victorian Anglican church on an isolated hillside in north-east Cumbria, England. Dedicated to Jesus' companion Mary Magdalene, it is the parish church of Gilsland, but is almost a mile from the village and may have been intended as much for the use of visitors to the nearby Gilsland Spa hotel as for the village.

Banna

Photo: Carl Bendelow, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Birdoswald Roman Fort, known to the Romans as Banna, was one of the 16 forts on Hadrian's Wall. Built in the 2nd century AD, Banna, as a site, continued to be used well beyond Roman occupation. Banna is situated 1½ miles southwest of Green Grove.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gilsland and Banks.

Gilsland

Village

Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Gilsland is a village in northern England about 20 miles west of Hexham, and about 18 miles east of Carlisle, which straddles the border between Cumbria and Northumberland.

Banks

Hamlet

Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Banks is a village in Cumbria, England, astride the course of Hadrian's Wall, 3 mile NE of the market town of Brampton. The historic Lanercost Priory is just a mile to the SW. Banks is situated 4½ miles southwest of Green Grove.

Haltwhistle

Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.

Haltwhistle is a market town in Northumberland, along the route between Newcastle and Carlisle, with a population of 4650 in 2021. It contrived to be named for a railway halt over 600 years before that railway arrived: Hautwysel means a hill between two forks of a river. Hadrian's Wall is the main reason to visit, the Roman frontier defence built in 122 AD.

Green Grove

Type: Locality
Location: Thirlwall, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.00703° or 55° 0′ 25″ north

Longitude

-2.57413° or 2° 34′ 27″ west

Open location code

9C7V2C4G+R8

OpenStreetMap ID

node 323095033

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Gilsland Spa and Common House.

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Highlights: Roseburn Linn Waterfall and Chalybeate Linn Waterfall.

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