Concernant le toponyme » Matfen, Northumberland, England, La Grande-Bretagne

Matfen is a village and a civil parish in Northumberland, England, near the towns of Hexham and Newcastle upon Tyne. It is an example of an eighteenth-century planned estate village. It was the birthplace of the nineteenth-century Premier of British Columbia, William Smithe. The children's writer Lorna Hill was a long-term resident while her husband was rector.