Barrow Burn

Barrowburn is a hamlet in Upper Coquetdale in the county of Northumberland, England. It comprises a working farm with associated buildings and two holiday lets.

Photo: John Watson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Hamlet
Description: village in Northumberland, United Kingdom
Also known as: “Barrowburn”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Northumberland National Park and Shillhope Law.

Northumberland National Park

Photo: Super Rabbit One, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Northumberland National Park is in Northumberland, with hills and forests along the border with Scotland. The park is bisected by A68 and this page describes facilities west of that highway.

Shillhope Law is a hill in the southern Cheviots, a range of hills in Northumberland, England. Shillhope Law is a relatively unremarkable member of this group; in common with its neighbours it has a small summit and steep, grassy sides falling to deeply incised valleys on either side.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alwinton and Chew Green.

Alwinton

Hamlet

Photo: Chris Tweedy, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Alwinton is a village and former parish in Northumberland, England. Alwinton is named after the nearby River Alwin, and means farm on the River Alwin. Alwinton lies at the head of the Coquet valley, on the edge of both the Otterburn Army Training Estate and the Northumberland National Park. Alwinton is situated 4½ miles southeast of Barrow Burn.

Chew Green

Locality

Photo: Toby Speight, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Chew Green is the site of the ancient Roman encampment, commonly but erroneously called Ad Fines on the 1885-1900 edition of the Ordnance Survey map, in Northumberland, England, 8 miles north of Rochester and 9 miles west of Alwinton. Chew Green is situated 5 miles west of Barrow Burn.

Harbottle

Hamlet

Photo: Glennsmart, Public domain.

Harbottle is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England about 10 miles south-east of the Scottish border, in the southeastern part of the Cheviot Hills and inside Northumberland National Park. Harbottle is situated 6 miles southeast of Barrow Burn.

Barrow Burn

Categories: village and locality
Location: Alwinton, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.39027° or 55° 23′ 25″ north

Longitude

-2.21321° or 2° 12′ 48″ west

Open location code

9C7V9QRP+4P

OpenStreetMap ID

node 471580383

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

Wikidata ID

Q4863867

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Welsh—“Barrow Burn” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Barrow Burn”
French: “Barrowburn”
Irish: “Barrow Burn”
Polish: “Barrowburn”
Welsh: “Barrow Burn”
“Barrowburn”

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