Widdrington Station

Widdrington Station
Northumberland
Parish Church, to The Holy Trinity
Location
Grid reference:	NZ247939
Location:	55°14’27"N, 1°36’50"W
Data
Population:	2,767  (2011)
Post town:	Morpeth
Postcode:	NE61
Dialling code:	01670
Local Government
Council:	Northumberland
Parliamentary constituency:	Berwick upon Tweed

Widdrington Station is a village in Northumberland, a mile south of Widdrington Village, close to the North Sea coast. It is beside and barely separated from the neighbouring hamlet, Stobswood. The three, Widdrington, Widrington Station and Stobswood, together had 2,767 residents recorded at the 2011 census.

The village is to be found six miles north of Morpeth.

The name of the village, as it suggests, is from the railway station here. A station was built to serve Widdrington on what is now the East Coast Main Line, but as the line passes a mile from the village the station was at a distance from the village. A little village grew up around the station and took its name from it: Widdrington Station.

Landmarks

Widdrington Station has four food premises including The Junction restaurant and Sidings Bar which includes in its menu items a traditional speciality dish that is local to the region, beer battered black pudding. The village has its own library, medical centre and a modern mini-supermarket, which is a Co-op.

Coal train approaching the station

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Widdrington Station with Stobswood)

• Northumberland Communities: Widdrington