- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Senior Management & myself are heading up there, shortly for a week away
We're stopping a mile or so, as the Seagull flies, from Bamburgh Castle, in a (seemingly) very quiet/sheltered spot
It's about 15 years since we were last up there, when we were on a caravan site at East Ord (Berwick-upon-Tweed), when I had my Land-Rover 90CSW-V8 & a Swift twin-axle BSWOW
I'm trying to put a hi-list together of where to go/what to do
- Alnwick will be visited, as I have memories of; https://www.barterbooks.co.uk/
- Lindisfarne (tide-times dependant)
- Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Craster
- Seahouses (a friend of ours is now the Parish Priest near there, having been the Dean at Wakefield Cathedral)
- Wooler
- possibly Kirk Yetholm (due to its Pennine Way connections)
I hope to get to Rothbury, for Cragside this time, mainly for the Armstrong connection (Bamburgh Castle has - had?- a museum)
Any other suggestions?
SWMBO's not walking far at the moment, due to Plantar Fasciitis, so (sadly) no hikes/route-marches
EDIT @ 20:45
I have been warned, already about it turning into a tour of old roads/bridge/mile-posts, etc......
As one of my interests, (& I will be on the look out for features) is the 'Great North Road', in its pre 60s' guise, when it passed through a lot of towns & villages
I've already been photocopying pages of one of my books....
(the 'Then & Now')
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I'll make the deal with her, that I'll only look at certain sections, that I can't normally get to, on my days-off
(ie; above the North Yorkshire border)
Lindisfarne is an utter waste of time. The abbey ruins display is poor and the castle is still being renovated. Went there in August this year and was totally disappointed.