YHA The Sill

YHA The Sill is a hostel in Henshaw, Northumberland, England. YHA The Sill is situated nearby to The Sill: National Landscape Discovery Centre, as well as near the planetarium Stargazing.

Type: Hostel
Address: Hexham, NE47 7AN
Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Twice Brewed and Sycamore Gap tree.

Twice Brewed

Pub

Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Twice Brewed is a pub, which is situated 430 feet west of YHA The Sill.

The Sycamore Gap tree, also known as the Robin Hood tree, was a 120-year-old sycamore tree next to Hadrian's Wall near Crag Lough in Northumberland, England. Sycamore Gap tree is situated 4,200 feet northeast of YHA The Sill.

Vindolanda

Fort

Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.

Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it pre-dated. Archaeological excavations of the site show it was under Roman occupation from roughly 85 AD to 370 AD. Vindolanda is situated 1¼ miles east of YHA The Sill.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Once Brewed and Haltwhistle.

Once Brewed

Hamlet

Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Once Brewed is a village in Northumberland, England. It lies on the Military Road. A motorist arriving over the B6318 from the east will see the place name shield "Once Brewed", while those coming from the west will read "Twice Brewed".

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.

Plenmeller

Locality

Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Plenmeller is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Plenmeller with Whitfield, in Northumberland, England about a mile southeast of Haltwhistle. In 1951 the parish had a population of 107. Plenmeller is situated 3½ miles southwest of YHA The Sill.

YHA The Sill

Categories: tourism, accommodation, and building
Location: Henshaw, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.99579° or 54° 59′ 45″ north

Longitude

-2.38873° or 2° 23′ 19″ west

Brand

Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales)

Operator

YHA

Open location code

9C6VXJW6+8G

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5001767865

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=hostel

OpenStreetMap attribute

wheelchair=yes

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Highlights include The Sill: National Landscape Discovery Centre and Stargazing.

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