Hexham

Hexham is a city located in the Northumberland in England. It was twinned with Saint-Lunar in the Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany and is twinned since 1992 with Noyon in the Oise in Picardy (France) as with Metzingen in Germany with which Noyon is also twinned. This triangular twinning is one of rare existing in Europe and ilpermet with the English, French and Germans to have mutual friends in the three cities.

Town of 15.000 inhabitants but in the center of a district of 40.000 inhabitants, Hexham is little known tourists of the " Continent " , but has many assets. Near to Newcastle, a large metropolis of a million inhabitants, it is nevertheless brood in the green hills of Northumberland and is the city nearest to the Hadrian's Wall , kind of Great wall in miniature which protected the Empire from the barbarians pictes (ancestors of the Scot) and which marked the septentrional limit of the Roman influence in Europe. Many tourists come to visit the wall, the museums which mark out it and the many castles and gardens of the surroundings.

All around Hexham, the landscapes are splendid, wild, romantic.

The city itself is very animated. Organized all around its splendid abbey, of the trade of all kinds attract its inhabitants and those of the neighbouring villages, but a great retail park also developed with the foot of the hurdy-gurdy city, in the valley of the Tyne.

Hexham is equipped with many utility services :

  1. its hospital new bright burning coal,
  2. Queen' S Hall, great arts center which contains a theater, the library of the city and a showroom,
  3. a sports complex, Wentworth Center, and its stage of atlethism
  4. Community Center, communal room, among other rooms availability of the public
  5. its cattle market, modern ultra equipment including/understanding a big room of reception and finally
  6. the swimming pool.

With the top of Hexham, on the peak of the hills beaten by the wind, the hyppodrome of Hexham, famous for its steeplechase, attracts the racegoers of all the area.

It is also a very beautiful city thanks to its historic buildings :

  1. Moot Hall fortification (or hall of discussion) which dates from the Middle Ages
  2. the prison, Hexham Goal, also of the Middle Ages,
  3. the Bridge of Hexham. Superb example of architecture of the 18th century, it spans the Tyne river. In turn tumultuous or peaceful it runs between natural banks bordered of a large park and a golf which invite to the walk.
  4. and especially, the very beautiful Abbey (St Andrews) built by the Norman canons at the end of the 12th century. Large religious building placed at the center town, it has many common points with the cathedral of Boundary-line, both being remarkable examples of primitive Gothic.
Hexham was famous for its tanneries but today, the industries of the cities are concentrated in the content of the valley. Most important is " Egger" , a company of manufacture of agglomerate. This large factory harms the beauty of the landscape but it provides work to a great number of inhabitants. However, of many Hexamois work in Newcastle which is only at 25 minutes of car thanks to the road with 4 ways which connects the two cities.

More on Hexham and to see very many photographs of the city and its inhabitants, visit the official site of its twinning:

http://perso.orange.fr/danielle.esposito/jum.html

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