Harkess Rocks

Harkess Rocks is a locality in Bamburgh, Northumberland, England. Harkess Rocks is situated nearby to the village Bamburgh, as well as near the locality Budle Point.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bamburgh Lighthouse and Bamburgh Castle.

Bamburgh Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Brian Nevin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bamburgh Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1910 to guide shipping both passing along the Northumberland coast and in the waters around the Farne Islands.

Bamburgh Castle, on the northeast coast of England, by the village of Bamburgh in Northumberland, is a Grade I listed building. The site was originally the location of a Celtic Brittonic fort known as Din Guarie and may have been the capital of the kingdom of Bernicia from its foundation c.

RNLI Grace Darling Museum

Museum

Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bamburgh and Glororum.

Bamburgh

Village

Photo: Quaoar10, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Bamburgh is a village and civil parish on the coast of Northumberland, England. It had a population of 454 in 2001, decreasing to 414 at the 2011 census.

Glororum

Hamlet

Photo: David Kitching, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Glororum is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bamburgh in the county of Northumberland, England, about 1.25 miles south west of Bamburgh. In 1951 the parish had a population of 13. Glororum is situated 1½ miles south of Harkess Rocks.

Burton

Locality

Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Burton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bamburgh, in the county of Northumberland, England. It is situated to the south of the village of Bamburgh, a short distance inland from the North Sea coast. Burton is situated 1½ miles south of Harkess Rocks.

Harkess Rocks

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

55.61647° or 55° 36′ 59″ north

Longitude

-1.72123° or 1° 43′ 16″ west

Open location code

9C7WJ78H+HG

OpenStreetMap ID

node 393322875

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Bamburgh Research Project Archaeological Site and St Aidan’s Church, Bamburgh.

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