Wooler
Wooler is a town in Northumberland, on a lowland route into Scotland that skirts the Cheviot Hills, with a population of 2000 in 2021. "Situated in an ill-cultivated country under the influence of vast mountains, from whence it is subject to impetuous rains" was the Norman conquerors' dismal assessment of it in 1107.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 1,980 residents
- Description: town in Northumberland, England
- Also known as: “Wooler, Northumberland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Green Castle and St Ninian’s Catholic Church, Wooler.
Green Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Green Castle is an archaeological site.
St Ninian’s Catholic Church, Wooler
Church
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Ninian’s church is a Catholic place of worship situated on Burnhouse Road in the town of Wooler in Northumberland, England. It is a Grade II listed building and is within the Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Earle and Doddington.
Earle
Hamlet
Earle is a village and civil parish in county of Northumberland, England. It has around 20 inhabitants and is about 2 miles from Wooler. It is a popular walking area with many walks passing through Earle on their way to the Cheviot Hills.
Doddington
Village
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The village and parish of Doddington are on the east side of the Milfield Plain, nearly 3 miles north of the town of Wooler, in the county of Northumberland, England. Doddington is situated 3 miles north of Wooler.
Yeavering
Hamlet
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yeavering is a hamlet in the north-east corner of the civil parish of Kirknewton in the English county of Northumberland. It is located on the River Glen at the northern edge of the Cheviot Hills. Yeavering is situated 3½ miles west of Wooler.
Wooler
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.5459° or 55° 32′ 45″ northLongitude
-2.0148° or 2° 0′ 53″ westPopulation
1,980Elevation
184 feet (56 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WLROpen location code
9C7VGXWP+83OpenStreetMap ID
node 293715839OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Wooler” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Wooler”
- Basque: “Wooler”
- Cebuano: “Wooler”
- Chinese: “Wooler”
- Czech: “Wooler”
- Dutch: “Wooler”
- French: “Wooler”
- German: “Wooler”
- Irish: “Wooler”
- Italian: “Wooler”
- Japanese: “ウーラー”
- Ladin: “Wooler”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wooler (Northumberland)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wooler”
- Persian: “وولر”
- Polish: “Wooler”
- Romanian: “Wooler”
- Russian: “Вулер”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Wooler, Northumberland”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Wooler”
- South Azerbaijani: “وولر”
- Swedish: “Wooler”
- Tajik: “Вулер”
- Turkish: “Wooler”
- Ukrainian: “Вулер”
- Volapük: “Wooler”
- Welsh: “Wooler”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Wooler”. Photo: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0.