Shaftoe Crags

Shaftoe Crags is a locality in Capheaton, Northumberland, England. Shaftoe Crags is situated nearby to the village Capheaton, as well as near the hamlet Harnham.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wallington Hall and Aruna Ratanagiri.

Wallington Hall

Photo: Glen Bowman, CC BY 2.0.

Wallington is a country house and gardens located about 12 miles west of Morpeth, Northumberland, England, about 1.2 miles south-southeast the village of Cambo. Wallington Hall is situated 2 miles northwest of Shaftoe Crags.

Aruna Ratanagiri

Buddhist temple

Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery is a Theravada Buddhist monastery of the Thai Forest Tradition in Northumberland, England. The community consists of monks, novices and postulants from a wide range of nationalities, usually numbering around eight Sangha members. Aruna Ratanagiri is situated 1½ miles southeast of Shaftoe Crags.

Capheaton Hall

Building

Photo: John Preston Neale, Public domain.

Capheaton Hall, near Wallington, Northumberland, is an English country house, the seat of the Swinburne Baronets and a childhood home of the poet Algernon Swinburne.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bolam and Kirkharle.

Bolam

Village

Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bolam is a village in the civil parish of Belsay in the county of Northumberland, England. The village is about 20 miles north-west of Newcastle upon Tyne, near Bolam West Houses. Bolam is situated 2½ miles east of Shaftoe Crags.

Kirkharle

Hamlet

Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Kirkharle is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kirkwhelpington, in the county of Northumberland in Northern England located about 12 miles west of the town of Morpeth, just to the west of the crossroads of the A696 and B6342 roads. Kirkharle is situated 2½ miles west of Shaftoe Crags.

Cambo

Hamlet

Photo: Phil Thirkell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cambo is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wallington Demesne, in Northumberland, England. It is about 11 miles to the west of the county town of Morpeth at the junction of the B6342 and B6343 roads. Cambo is situated 2½ miles northwest of Shaftoe Crags.

Shaftoe Crags

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

55.1354° or 55° 8′ 7″ north

Longitude

-1.91707° or 1° 55′ 2″ west

Open location code

9C7W43PM+55

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6480065000

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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