Photo along the Hadrian's Wall Path, an 84-mile National Trail running from Wallsend to Bowness-on-Solway, England.

Hadrian's Wall PathPhoto the iop / Pexels

Places to explore near Newcastle Airport Metro StationAirport

38 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group. 1 is a national icon.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Iconic

Hadrian's Wall Path

National Trail

Coast to coast along the Roman frontier, milecastle by milecastle.

6.4 km S · Northumberland, Cumbria & Tyne and Wear

Highlight

Jesmond Dene

Garden near Newcastle upon Tyne

Steep wooded valley park in Newcastle along the Ouseburn, with waterfalls, ruins and old woodland.

9.3 km SE

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Denton Hall Turret, Hadrian's Wall

Frontier wall near Newcastle upon Tyne

Low footings of turret 7b with a 65-metre run of broad Wall beside the busy West Road on Newcastle's western edge.

5.8 km S

Tyne Green Country Park

Country park near Wylam

A country park in Tyne and Wear.

6 km SW

Weetslade Country Park

Country park near Newcastle upon Tyne

A country park in Tyne and Wear.

6.4 km E

Northumberland Cheese Company

Farm & farm shop near Blagdon

Artisan dairy on the Blagdon Estate handcrafting seventeen cheeses, with a cheese shop and loft café above the creamery.

6.5 km NE

Heddon-on-the-Wall, Hadrian's Wall

Frontier wall near Wylam

The best-preserved excavated length of the original Broad Wall, about 3 metres thick at Heddon, with a medieval corn-drying kiln built into it.

6.6 km SW

Tyne Riverside Country Park

Country park near Wylam

A country park in Northumberland.

6.9 km SW

Benwell Vallum Crossing

Frontier wall near Newcastle upon Tyne

Stone causeway carrying the road to Benwell fort over the Vallum ditch, the only such crossing still visible anywhere along Hadrian's Wall.

7.3 km SE

Benwell Roman Temple

roman-temple near Newcastle upon Tyne

Footings of a little Roman shrine to the local god Antenociticus, from the settlement beside Benwell fort, now in a quiet street of Newcastle houses.

7.4 km SE

Wylam Brewery

Brewery near Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle brewery and taproom in the Palace of Arts at Exhibition Park, beer among the parkland.

8.2 km SE

Everything else within 10 km (27) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

George Stephenson's BirthplaceHouse & garden8.7 km SW
Derwenthaugh Country ParkCountry park8.8 km S
Newcastle General CemeteryHouse & garden9.2 km SE
Derwent Walk Country ParkCountry park9.3 km S
Plessey Woods Country ParkCountry park9.6 km NE
WylamVillage9.8 km SW
The Crown PosadaPub9.9 km SE
Bessie Surtees HouseHouse10 km SE
Prestwick CarrSSSIaccess unclear2.5 km N
Vicar's PeleTower houseaccess unclear2.6 km NW
Darras Hall GrasslandSSSIaccess unclear2.6 km W
Brenkley MeadowsSSSIaccess unclear4.2 km NE
Big WatersSSSIaccess unclear4.3 km NE
Westerhope Hill HeadsCounty topaccess unclear4.4 km S
Hallow HillSSSI6.1 km SW
Gosforth ParkSSSIaccess unclear6.5 km E
Northumbrian SaunaSauna6.6 km NW
Battle of Newburn FordBattlefield6.7 km S
Arcot Hall Grassland and PondsSSSIaccess unclear6.9 km NE
Ryton WillowsSSSI6.9 km S
Close House RiversideSSSIaccess unclear8 km SW
Rudchester Roman fortRoman archaeological siteaccess unclear8.1 km SW
Shibdon PondSSSIaccess unclear8.2 km S
The FriarsFriaryaccess unclear9.2 km SE
St Nicholas' Cathedral, NewcastleChurch9.7 km SE
Lower Derwent MeadowsSSSI9.9 km S
The Bridge TavernPub9.9 km SE

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.