Bellister Wood
Bellister Wood is a forest in Featherstone, Northumberland, England. Bellister Wood is situated nearby to the locality Bellister Estate, as well as near Gawk Hill.Places of Interest
Highlights include Hadrian’s Wall and Bellister Castle.
Hadrian’s Wall
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hadrian's Wall was built by the Roman Empire to protect their territory in England from the Pictish tribes of Scotland. It was built relatively quickly from 122 AD, with associated castles and forts, and stretches for 73 miles from the Tyne estuary on the east coast to Solway Firth on the west coast.
Bellister Castle
Castle
Photo: Anthony Parkes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bellister Castle is a National Trust owned castellated 19th-century mansion house attached to the ruinous remains of a 14th-century tower house, near Haltwhistle, Northumberland, England.
Haltwhistle railway station
Railway station
Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, Public domain.
Haltwhistle is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between Newcastle and Carlisle via Hexham. The station, situated 22 miles 66 chains east of Carlisle, serves the market town of Haltwhistle in Northumberland, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haltwhistle and Coanwood.
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.
Coanwood
Hamlet
Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coanwood is a village in Northumberland, England, and is part of the Parish of Haltwhistle. It is about four miles to the south-west of Haltwhistle, on the South Tyne.
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.
Bellister Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Featherstone, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.9605° or 54° 57′ 38″ northLongitude
-2.4646° or 2° 27′ 52″ westOpen location code
9C6VXG6P+65OpenStreetMap ID
way 219814071OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bellister Estate and Gawk Hill.
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Highlights include Millstone quarry and Haltwhistle Cemetery.
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