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Northumberland - Castles & Beaches
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The coastline of Northumberland an Area of Outstanding
Beauty is accessed by the A1 Highway from the south with connections from the M1
Motorway from London and the west coast M6 via the A69 from Carlisle.
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The A1 runs north out of Newcastle-upon-Tyne through
Morpeth, Alnwick to Berwick-upon Tweed on the Scottish Border before continuing
on to Edinburgh. At all time the Beaches and Castle which abound along this
sandy coast is within 5miles (8km) to the east.
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The
Northumberland
coastlines beauty with its sandy beeches and castles, the most magnificent are at
the north end at Dunstanburgh, Warkworth and Bamburgh not forgetting the walled
city of Berwick upon Tweed.
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Seahouses
a fishing port and tourist attraction has boats sailing daily weather permitting
to the Farne Islands off the coast which is a reserve for thousand of sea birds.
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Holy
Island where St Aidan founded the Lindisfarne Monastery in AD635 can only be
reached at low tide across a causeway. Northumbria's Christian heritage has a
route from Lindisfarne to the Cathedral at Durham where Saint Cuthbert was
finally laid to rest in AD995.
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Northumbria
borders with Cumbria in the North Pennines, where they prospered from the lead
mining industry. The Northern lead miner life is recreated at England's at the
Kilhope Lead Mining Centre at the top of Weardale where it meets Teesdale.
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Northern
life in the early 19th and 20th centuries can be envisaged at Beamish the North
of England's Open Air Museum, with its town, farms, colliery village, pit and steam railway.
County
Durham was the cradle of the world's railways, with the world's first passenger
railway opening in 1825.
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Warkworth Castle
a
large and complex stronghold, it was home to the Percy family who at times wielded more
power in the North than the King himself. Most famous of them all was Harry Hotspur (Sir Henry Percy), immortalised in Northumbrian
ballads and Shakespeare's Henry IV.
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Ford / Etal
Etal has a 14th Century Etal Castle and within walking distance, is the Heatherslaw
light railway which takes you from Etal into
Heatherslaw - a great day out for young and old alike. You might explore the 19th century
water powered corn mill. Here, traditional methods and original machinery are used to
grind locally grown wheat into flour.
After which, you’ll no doubt feel tempted to buy some of the bakery’s cake or
bread from the Heatherslaw Mill gift shop. There is a tea room too, which offers
traditional home baking. Cycles can also be hired at Heatherslaw,
this is a good area for walking .
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In the picturesque
Etal
Village
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there is a post office with shop
and tea room, a nursery selling alpines, heathers and shrubs etc., and the
BLACK BULL
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Northumberland’s only thatched roof pub offering real ale
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Northumbria Nurseries with over 1600 different types of shrubs etc. and for the
artists, Lady Waterford Hall with large murals depicting the children of
the village and their families.
Phone: 01890
820 338
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Woodhorn
Colliery Museum
The Woodhorn colliery was opened in 1894
and remained operational extracting coal from beneath the ground until 1981.
It was opened as a Museum in 1989 depicting the life and times of the
Ashington Pitmen in the original Pith Head Buildings. It has become a
centre of local activities in Ashington the home of the famous footballers
Bobby & Jack Charlton and Jackie Millburn who worked in the Woodhorn Pit.
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