Roman Vindolanda Hadrian's Wall Northumberland
Roman Bathhouse at Chesters Roman Fort Hadrian's Wall Northumberland
Hexham Abbey Northumberland
Hadrian's Wall at Housesteads Roman Fort Northumberland
Flodden Field 1513 Battlefield Site nr Branxton Northumberland
Independent Local Produce shops in Wooler Northumberland
Winter at The Alnwick Garden Northumberland
Chollerford BridgeNorthumberland is the North East's great unspoilt landscape. This stunning rural area in Britain features a mixed landscape of wild heather moorland uplands, ancient forests and Iron Age Hillforts, many of England's top fishing rivers and a selection of country towns and villages offering an outstanding choice of country pubs, county shows and local food festivals, craft shops, farmers' markets, local food shops and outdoor activities including everything from walking to winter skiing and watersports.
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Top Northumberland walking bases include Wooler, Rothbury, Alwinton and Bellingham which sits directly alongside the Pennine Way National Trail. Beautiful unspoilt landscapes, outstanding gardens and historic castles, cosy country inns and luxury country house hotels, fine tearooms, some of the best of Britain's Roman sites, local produce markets and shops and an outstanding choice of outdoor activities are all here waiting to be discovered in beautiful Northumberland.
In the south of Northumberland sits Britain's greatest Roman monument, World Heritage Site Hadrian's Wall. Ideal Northumberland accommodation bases for exploring Hadrian's Wall country include Haltwhistle, a top spot for walking festivals and historic market town Hexham, home to the beautiful Hexham Abbey, top markets and numerous medieval buildings.
North Northumberland meets the Scottish border to the west of Berwick at Coldstream. Outstanding fishing features along the River Tweed in this area and you can explore the history of the Coldstream Guards at the Coldstream Museum. The beautiful country estates of Ford & Etal are also in the North Northumberland area and contain charming attractions such as the Heatherslaw Light Railway, historic attractions such as Etal Castle and a wide selection of local food and craft centres and tearooms.
Great family holiday bases in Northumberland include Alnwick and Kielder Forest Park. Alnwick is ideally situated just off the Al and affords easy access to the Holy Island Coast and Northumberland National Park. Family attractions in Alnwick are outstanding and include two of Northumberland's most popular attractions - The Alnwick Garden and the spectacular Alnwick Castle which has featured in a Harry Potter movie. Kielder Water & Forest Park boasts a host of family attractions including visitor centres, watersports on Kielder Water, regular family events and festivals, an astronomy centre and a birds of prey centre.
If you have ever thought you would enjoy a creative break Horsley Printmakers should be on your list. Horsley Printmakers is an independent working studio where artist printmakers, Carol Nunan and Rebecca Vincent, teach printmaking weekend workshops, day workshops, evening classes and more in all manner of printmaking media including linocuts, etching, wood engraving, etc.
The two artists also make and sell their original and limited edition hand-made and digital giclee prints from their studio. The studio is one of eight artists studios plus a cafe based in a converted 17th century manse and 19th century schoolrooms situated in Horsley not far from Hadrian s Wall, ten minutes west of Newcastle and Gateshead off A69 roughly half way between Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Hexham. See Horsley Printmakers for more details.
