High Balk
High Balk is a meadow in Whittington, Northumberland, England. High Balk is situated nearby to the community center Great Whittington Village Hall, as well as near Toft Hill.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Milecastle 22 and Aydon Castle.
Milecastle 22
Archaeological site
Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Milecastle 22 was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. Its remains exist as a low, turf covered platform just east of the Portgate roundabout. The platform is 0.5 metres on the east side, reducing to only a parch mark on the west side. Milecastle 22 is situated 1¼ miles southwest of High Balk.
Aydon Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aydon Castle, previously sometimes called Aydon Hall, is a fortified manor house at Aydon near to the town of Corbridge, Northumberland, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and is designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. Aydon Castle is situated 2½ miles south of High Balk.
Milecastle 23
Archaeological site
Photo: Sam.roebuck, CC BY 3.0.
Milecastle 23 was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. Its remains exist as a low, grass covered platform with traces of an external ditch. It is located to the south of the B6318 Military Road around 1.5 kilometres west of its junction with the A68. Milecastle 23 is situated 2 miles southwest of High Balk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Great Whittington and Halton.
Great Whittington
Village
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Whittington is a village in the civil parish of Whittington, in Northumberland, England, 7 miles NE of Hexham. In 2011 it had a population of 401.
Halton
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Halton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Whittington, in the southern part of Northumberland, England. It is situated 3 miles north of Corbridge just south of Hadrian's Wall.
Matfen
Village
Photo: Stephen Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Matfen is a village and a civil parish in Northumberland, England, near the town of Hexham and the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is an example of a 19th-century planned estate village. Matfen is situated 2 miles northeast of High Balk.
High Balk
- Type: Meadow
- Location: Whittington, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.02566° or 55° 1′ 32″ northLongitude
-1.99766° or 1° 59′ 52″ westOpen location code
9C7W22G2+7WOpenStreetMap ID
way 745234451OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=meadow
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