Traditional county: Northumberland · Region: North East
Explore Little Swinburne, Northumberland with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Little Swinburne map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
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| Place | Little Swinburne |
| Traditional County | Northumberland |
| Region | North East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 55.092407 |
| Longitude | -2.081680 |
| Place Type | Other Settlement |
Little Swinburne holds the quiet, spare authority of a landscape where the wind dictates the shape of the hawthorn and the stone. It lies 8.4 miles north of Hexham (from Hexham: bearing 5°T, OS grid NY 948 775), and is situated east-north-east of Gunnerton village. The air here carries a crystalline sharpness, refined by the expanse of the surrounding Northumberland hills that seem to hold the sky at a deliberate distance. To the southwest, the surface of Little Swinburne Reservoir acts as a dark, polished mirror, reflecting the passing clouds in a silence that feels almost prehistoric. Beneath the thin soil, the earth preserves the ghosts of a shrunken medieval village, where the faint, humped outlines of abandoned dwellings and fishponds trace a long-forgotten pattern of human industry. Little Swinburne endures as a place of vast, open horizons, where the low sun casts long, skeletal shadows across the moorland grasses. The muted grey of the local masonry harmonises with the rugged character of the terrain, suggesting a permanence that ignores the rapid pulse of more crowded districts. Time here is measured not by clocks, but by the slow movement of light across the ridges and the patient, cyclical return of the seasons.
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Explore Little Swinburne, Northumberland, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 55.092407, -2.081680. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |