Hepple

Hepple
Hepple
Hepple Location within Northumberland
Population	144 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference	NT985005
Civil parish	Rothbury
Unitary authority	Northumberland
Ceremonial county	Northumberland
Region	North East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MORPETH
Postcode district	NE65
Police	Northumbria
Fire	Northumberland
Ambulance	North East
UK Parliament	North Northumberland
List of places UK England Northumberland 55°17′55″N 2°01′31″W / 55.298604°N 2.025170°W / 55.298604; -2.025170

Hepple is a small village and parish in rural Northumberland, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Rothbury, which provides most of its local services. It is on the edge of the Northumberland National Park, and lies on the bank of the river Coquet, at a location which was on the Coquet Stop Line, of which a pillbox remains. It is on the road between Rothbury and Otterburn. The village contains a church, village hall and post office.

Half a mile north-east of the village along the road to Rothbury are the ruins of Hepple Tower, a fourteenth-century tower house, which is listed by English Heritage as a building at risk.^[2] A mile to the west, close to the country house of Holystone Grange, is Woodhouses Bastle, dated 1602 and restored and re-roofed in the twentieth century, a well-preserved bastle which may have been converted from a pele tower.^[3]