Branxton is a Town in the county of Northumberland.

Retail in Branxton

There are great places to visit near Branxton including some great villages, ancient sites, beaches, hiking areas, geological features, castles, ruins, islands, towns, roman sites and historic monuments.

Villages to visit near Branxton include Milfield, Craster, and Bamburgh.

There are a several good ancient sites in the area around Branxton like Milfield North Henge.

Beaches to visit near Branxton include Embleton Bay, and Bamburgh Beach.

There are a number of hiking areas near Branxton including Dunstanburgh, Sycamore Gap, and Hadrian's Wall near Hexham.

There are a number of geological features near Branxton including Gull Crag and the Rumble Churn, Greymare Rock, and Sycamore Gap.

There are a number of castles near to Branxton including Dunstanburgh Castle.

Branxton's best nearby ruins can be found at Dunstanburgh Castle, WWII Sandbag Pillbox, and Old Limekiln at Dunstanburgh.

Branxton is near some unmissable islands like Farne Islands,

Branxton's best nearby towns can be found at Hexham, and Berwick-upon-Tweed.

There are a several good roman sites in the Branxton area like Hadrian's Wall near Hexham, and Chesters Roman Fort.

Flodden is one of Branxton's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Branxton.

Branxton History

There are some historic monuments around Branxton:

• Camp 400yds (370m) NNE of Flodden
• Ring Chesters defended settlement
• Hazely Hill round cairn
• Settlement WSW of Ell's Knowe
• Bronze Age unenclosed hut circle settlement, field system and cairnfield, 630m south west of triangulation point on Gains Law
• Three Roman period native settlements and later droveway 750m south west of Torleehouse
• Prehistoric unenclosed hut circle settlement, field system and cairnfield 340m south west of triangulation point on Gains Law
• Prehistoric unenclosed hut circle settlement west of Monday Cleugh, 520m SSE of Gleadscleugh
• Moneylaws Castle Hill camp
• Hethpool stone circles
• Roman period native settlement 250m west of Elsdonburn Shank
• Cottage Hospital, settlement 250m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM12356
• Roman period native enclosed settlement 370m WNW of Great Hetha defended settlement
• Two medieval shielings on Akeld Hill, 680m WNW of Gleadscleugh
• Roman period native settlement, associated field system and trackway, and medieval farmstead 270m south of Torleehouse
• Bowmont Hill camp
• Settlement on north east slope of Yeavering Bell
• Enclosed settlement west of Mid Hill
• Elsdonburn Roman period native settlements and medieval shieling
• Settlement N of White Law
• Settlement SW of Mid Hill
• Enclosed settlement, 620m south east of Cornhill Castle
• Defended settlement, 380m south west of Sandy House
• Defended settlement, 507m north west of Pawston Lake
• Romano-British farmstead 760m north of Whitehall
• Marley Knowe round cairn
• Stob Stones,standing stones Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM1689
• Hut circle, cultivation terraces and farmstead of later prehistoric date, and medieval settlement and field system 800m and 740m south of Elsdonburn Shank
• Halterburn,farmsteads 400m ESE of Secular: enclosure SM4666
• Glead's Cleugh Iron Age promontory fort
• Hut circle settlements and field systems at Hetha Burn Head
• Castle Hill camp
• Great Hetha defended settlement
• Duddo Tower
• Settlement on the east slope of The Bell
• Settlement at Scaldhill Shank
• Settlement, probably medieval, SW of Torleehouse
• Settlements and cairn east of Laddies Knowe
• Prehistoric hut circle 540m south of Gleadscleugh
• Mid Hill enclosed settlement, Westnewton
• Bronze Age round house on Fredden Hill 880m south west of Bell's Valley
• Duddo stone circle, 800m north east of Grindonrigg
• Ell's Knowe defended settlement and earlier palisaded site
• Ladykirk House, barrow 105m N of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: barrow SM4470
• Norham Castle tower keep castle
• Coupland henge and section of droveway, 170m SSW of Cheviot Cottage
• Trowupburn cairn group
• Round cairn 100m south of Torleehouse
• Roman period native settlement 200m SSE of Staw Hill defended settlement
• Hetha Burn defended settlement, Roman period native enclosed settlement and associated trackways
• Staw Hill defended settlement
• Ewart Park henge
• Little Hetha defended settlement
• Henge, pit-circle and later cemetery, 850m north east of Millfield Hill
• West Hill camp
• Prehistoric hut circle on Harehope Hill, 400m south east of Gleadscleugh
• Yeavering Bell camp
• East Moneylaws camp
• The Battle Stone, 650m WNW of Yeavering Farm
• Romano British settlement, 655m north east of Lanton Hill Monument
• Roman period native settlement on east slope of Mid Hill, 520m south of Staw Hill Camp
• Farmstead and cultivation terraces, ENE of Stawhouse
• Hethpool tower house
• St Gregory's Hill camp
• Twizel medieval tower house and village, post-medieval folly and garden
• Circular enclosure W of Second Linthaugh
• Settlement, field systems and terraces on the south east slope of Yeavering Bell
• Medieval shieling and enclosure 340m north west of Gleadscleugh
• Southern ring cairn on Coldsmouth Hill
• Roman period native enclosed settlement 700m south of Ring Chesters defended settlement
• Romano-British settlements E of Yeavering Bell containing the Old Sheepfold settlement and settlements to the W and S of it
• Settlement 500yds (460m) SW of White Law
• Roman period native settlement 340m east of Hethpool Linn
• Enclosure on Fadden Hill
• Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 120m north west of Gleadscleugh
• Trowupburn Roman period native enclosed settlement, 120m north of Trowupburn Farm
• Settlement north west of Ell's Knowe
• Parson's Tower
• House platform north west of Laddie's Knowe settlement
• Ford Westfield settlement
• Bronze Age field system on Fredden Hill
• Littlehaugh Shiel, fort 400m WSW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM12401
• Cornhill Castle
• Iron Age multivallate hillfort and prehistoric trackway at Monday Cleugh
• Ladykirk House,barrow 470m NE of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: barrow SM4469
• Flodden camp
• Flodden Edge camp
• Five shielings 620m NNE of Elsdonburn Shank
• Twizel Bridge
• Northern ring cairn on Coldsmouth Hill
• Madam Law Cairn
• Site SE of Yeavering
• Burnt Humbleton,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM4668
• The King's Stone NW of Crookham Westfield Farm
• Roman period native enclosed settlement 600m north east of Elsdonburn Shank
• Etal Castle tower house
• Roman period aggregate village on Coldsmouth Hill, 650m south east of St Ethelrede's Chapel
• Downham camp
• Settlement at the south end of The Bell
• Hamilton House, fort 275m SSW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM12362
• Norham Cross
• Halterburn,farmstead 700m E of Secular: enclosure SM4670
• Green Humbleton,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1694
• Howtel tower house
• Roman period native farmstead 320m north east of Longknowe
• Site E of Milfield village
• Settlement on north slope of Yeavering Bell
• Two round cairns south west of Tuppie's Grave
• Enclosed settlement and subsidiary enclosures 160m N of Ring Chesters defended settlement
• Ad Gefrin Anglo-Saxon township and prehistoric remains