The Coffee Tree Café – George Stephenson's Birthplace loop from Wylam

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The Coffee Tree Café – George Stephenson's Birthplace loop from Wylam

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The Coffee Tree Café – George Stephenson's Birthplace loop from Wylam

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6.95km

80m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 31, 2026

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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95 m

The Coffee Tree Café

Highlight • Cafe

Please note it closes at 1600

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864 m

Wylam to Close House Road

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

3.09 km

Hemmel Wood

Forest

3.72 km

The Wylam Waggonway was built in 1748 by John Blackett to carry coal from the Wylam Colliery over a five-mile (approximately eight-kilometre) route to the staithes at Lemington on the River Tyne. Initially using wooden rails and oxen for traction, it was fitted with iron plate rails in 1808 and from 1813 housed the first commercial steam locomotives Puffing Billy and Wylam Dilly. It fell into disuse after the colliery closed around 1868, became part of the Scotswood, Newburn & Wylam Railway in 1875 and now serves largely as a walking and cycle path within the Tyne Riverside Country Park.

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4.46 km

Close House Riverside Nature Reserve

Nature Reserve

4.87 km

George Stephenson's Birthplace

Highlight • Monument

George Stephenson's birthplace is a simple stone worker's cottage on the north bank of the River Tyne in Wylam, built circa 1760 to house mining families, and where the future railway pioneer was born in 1781. A Grade II* listed building owned by the National Trust, it is now a historic house museum with original furnishings and displays about Stephenson's childhood and early locomotives, and is opened to visitors by costume guides who wish to experience the living conditions of a Georgian mining family.

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6.95 km

End point

Bus stop

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