Nice places to live up North

[Neeyag]

Looking to relocate closer to children who live in the Tynemouth area. Any suggestions of villages, with good rail links to London as my husband will need to commute for work at least once a week?

I live in Yorkshire, but I suppose you are looking specifically at Tynemouth / Newcastle area? Newcastle has the east coast rail service that takes around 4 hours direct to Kings Cross. There are some lovely areas in Newcastle I believe but don’t know them well. I was born there, mum is from there etc . I believe Richmond is lovely and Washington.

The North is a big place, it’s probably best to specify where you actually want to live.

Absolutely agree, you need to be a little more specific, Hexham is a nice smaller town, lots of small villages but not necessarily with easy access to the rail network, slightly further down into Durham, again lots of small and larger towns and villages and Durham is on the same line to London, wouldn’t personally agree with the comment about Washington, much better places to live, Richmond is lovely , would need to travel to Darlington or Northallerton for the train and probably an hours drive from Newcastle

Scotland?

Yes, how close is close? And will you be wanting to get to Tynemouth by car or public transport?

Although Hexham is nice, with traffic you'd be looking at an hour's drive to Tynemouth once you take in traffic, and it'd take about 30 minutes to get into Newcastle station to get the train to London.

I'd look around Morpeth, as you can get a direct train to London and it's nearer to Tynemouth.

Durham has direct trains into Kings Cross but I wouldn’t want to commute into London even once a week from somewhere so far.

York would be an easier commute and a lovely city but then you would be further from the Tynemouth area.