The Market Town Welcome project will help the town and its tourism businesses to
develop a strong identity for Haltwhistle. The work will be tailored to fit with
the emerging plans for investment and improvements arising from the Haltwhistle
Retail Distinctiveness Project, but will be co-ordinated by a distinct Leadership
Group. This group, which has been convened specially for the project, will be co-ordinated
by Haltwhistle Partnership, and will include representatives from the local council,
the local tourism association, heritage groups and local tourism and retail businesses.
Main contact for the Group is Gillian Cowell, who may be contacted at
gillian@haltwhistle.org
Once the plans are developed, the Leadership Group will continue to meet to implement
projects and to ensure that the wider investment programme for Haltwhistle takes
account of the Market Town Welcome plan.
We hope that this website will develop as an online community during the course
of the project. Feel free to use the discussion forum to give us your thoughts.
Post your digital photos on the site. Show us what you like or dislike about Haltwhistle.
What would you show visitors? What would you steer them away from? What makes you
proud of your town? Whether you have a full professional kit or a mobile phone,
we want to see your images.
Retail Distinctiveness Updates for Haltwhistle will appear
here
Please feel free to comment on any aspect of the project in your town:
History.....keep it a secret
03 February 2008
Yes, Haltwhistle and its surrounding area has a rich and exciting history, but other than the Wall, visitors would need to ask a lot of questions to find out about it
Nigel Jarvis
How would a visitor view Haltwhistle?
29 January 2008
We asked people from Haltwhistle attending the Market Town Welcome event what they thought are the positive and negative aspects of the town from a visitor perspective - do you agree with them?
Positives
- Hadrian’s Wall and national park within walking distance
- Transport links (train, Hadrian’s wall bus)
- Variety of local shops
- Leisure centre
- Walking (and festival) and cycling - on two national trails
- Free parking
- Architecture
- Strong heritage - Reivers/mining/romans
- Appearance
- Railway station
Negatives
- Opening times of shops
- Pubs not open 7 days and not offering food 7 days
- No taxis
- Co-ordination of public transport links
- Lack of places to eat
- Lack of wet day attractions
- No centre for Hadrian’s wall
- No info on local history/industry e.g. museum
Do you agree with their opinion? Tell us what you think by posting messages here!
Kristel Sootarsing