Hepple

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{{Infobox UK place

|official_name = Hepple

|static_image_name = Hepple - geograph.org.uk - 826364.jpg

|static_image_caption = Hepple

|country = England

|coordinates = {{coord|55.298604|-2.025170|display=inline,title}}

|population = 144

|population_ref = (2011){{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124498&c=NE19+1AH&d=16&e=62&g=6452790&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1435758180672&enc=1|title=Parish population 2011|accessdate=1 July 2015}}

|civil_parish = Rothbury

|unitary_england = Northumberland

|lieutenancy_england = Northumberland

|region = North East England

|constituency_westminster = North Northumberland

|post_town = MORPETH

|postcode_district = NE65

|postcode_area = NE

|dial_code =

|os_grid_reference = NT985005

}}

Hepple is a small village and parish in rural Northumberland, {{convert|4|mi}} 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.

File:Woodhouses Bastle - geograph.org.uk - 1485031.jpg

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.{{cite web | url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1371440 | title=HEPPLE TOWER, Hepple - 1371440 | Historic England }} 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.[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-236176-woodhouses-bastlehouse-harbottle Woodhouses Bastle]

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