Matfen
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| Matfen | |
| Northumberland | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Matfen | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NZ029719 |
| Location: | 55°2’28"N, 1°57’14"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 495 (2001) |
| Post town: | Newcastle Upon Tyne |
| Postcode: | NE20 |
| Dialling code: | 01661 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Northumberland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Hexham |
Matfen is a village in Northumberland, in the south of the county between Hexham and Newcastle upon Tyne. It is an example of a nineteenth-century planned estate village. It was the birthplace of the nineteenth-century Premier of British Columbia, William Smithe.
Sights of the village
Matfen Hall is operated as a hotel and country club. The Grade II* listed building was built c.1828 by Sir Edward Blackett to replace an earlier 17th Century house.
The Devil's Causeway passes the village less than two miles to the west. The causeway is a Roman road which starts at Port Gate on Hadrian's Wall, north of Corbridge, and extends fifty-five miles northwards of that frontier across Northumberland to the mouth of the River Tweed at Berwick-upon-Tweed.
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