Qualla: Hexham https://qualla.com/hexham en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Hexham https://qualla.com/hexham Hexham: Introduction https://qualla.com/hexham/ 'Gang to Hexham!' was an insult once heard across the Borders, recorded as far back as 1873. It meant 'go to Hell.' For a market town that calls itself England's happiest place to live (twice, in 2019 and 2021), it is a strange piece of folk memory to carry. But Hexham earned the reputation honestly. William Wallace burned the town in 1297. Robert the Bruce extorted £2,000 from it in 1312. David II of Scotland sacked the monastery in 1346. A Lancastrian duke was executed in the marketplace in 1464. And in 1761, redcoats opened fire on a peaceful crowd in that same marketplace and killed forty-five of their own countrymen.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/8/hexham-wp/gcy8-hexham-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hexham: Wilfrid's Town https://qualla.com/hexham/ Hexham began as a monastery. Saint Wilfrid, Bishop of York, founded a Benedictine abbey here in 674, building it largely from stones salvaged from Hadrian's Wall a few miles north and from the Roman town at Corbridge. The Saxon crypt he built still survives below the present abbe...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/8/hexham-wp/gcy8-hexham-wilfrids-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Hexham: Burned, Sacked, Ransomed https://qualla.com/hexham/ Sitting near the Anglo-Scottish border, Hexham could not escape the border wars. William Wallace torched the town in 1297 during the First War of Scottish Independence. Fifteen years later, Robert the Bruce arrived demanding tribute, and the monks paid £2,000 to spare themselves ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/8/hexham-wp/gcy8-hexham-burned-sacked-ransomed.mp3 0:06 3 full Hexham: The Hexham Butchers https://qualla.com/hexham/ On 9 March 1761, a crowd gathered in Hexham marketplace to protest changes to the militia laws, which were forcing poorer families to send sons to fight. Troops of the North York Militia, ordered to disperse them, opened fire. Around 45 people were killed. The regiment afterward ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/8/hexham-wp/gcy8-hexham-the-hexham-butchers.mp3 0:06 4 full Hexham: Three Listed Buildings in One Square https://qualla.com/hexham/ Hexham's market square is one of the most architecturally dense town centres in northern England. The Abbey dominates the west end, the Moot Hall (a medieval gatehouse-courthouse, Grade I listed) anchors the east, and the Shambles, a covered market built by Sir Walter Blackett in...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/8/hexham-wp/gcy8-hexham-three-listed-buildings-in-one-square.mp3 0:06 5 full Hexham: Flying Over Hexham https://qualla.com/hexham/ Coordinates 54.967 N, 2.100 W, geohash gcy88. Cruise at 2,500 to 4,000 ft AGL for a wide read of the South Tyne valley. The town sits on the south bank of the Tyne, with the wooded slope of Tyne Green descending to the river. From the air, the Abbey is unmistakable: a massive cru...

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