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Northumberland is a county in North East England, on the England-Scotland border.

[edit] Towns and villages

[edit] Towns

• Alnwick
• Amble
• Ashington
• Berwick-upon-Tweed
• Blyth
• Bedlington
• Cramlington
• Hexham
• Morpeth
• Rothbury

[edit] Villages

• Alnmouth
• Beadnell
• Bellingham
• Ford
• Heatherslaw
• Norham

[edit] Other destinations

• Lindisfarne - the "Holy Island"
• Northumberland National Park
• The Farne Islands

[edit] Understand

Northumberland is England's most northerly and sparsely populated county. Northumberland means "land north of the Humber" and once covered an area stretching from Dumfries to South Yorkshire.

The area has a very long and bloody history, due to its proximity to Scotland and has fallen under Scottish hands at least once as the border shifted over time. The more populous towns are either market towns (Amble, Hexham, Morpeth) and others are former mining communities (Prudhoe, Ashington).

Northumberland has its own dialect, different from the famous Geordie of Newcastle.

The Northumbrian Pipes are a local folk instrument, similar to the Scottish bagpipe.

[edit] Get in

[edit] By Plane

Newcastle International Airport [1] is the nearest airport to Northumberland.

[edit] Get around

You generally need a car to get about in Northumberland as it is a rural county. There are some regular bus services on the main routes mainly served by Arriva Northumbria. Bus timetables can be found at Nexus' website for services to and from Tyne and Wear and traveline can help you with other routes. There is a cross-county train service from Newcastle upon Tyne to Carlisle, stopping at towns in the Tyne Valley, including Prudhoe, Corbridge, Hexham and Haltwhistle.

Trains from Newcastle stop at Morpeth, Northumberland's county-town.

[edit][add listing] See

• Hadrian's Wall is a World Heritage Site stretching across 80 miles of Northumberland on the Scottish border. Housesteads, Vindolanda, Chesters and Corstopitum are all worth visiting.

• Norham Castle (located in the village of Norham, about 8 miles from Berwick) is a romantically ruined castle, immortalised by Turner and Sir Walter Scott (in the poem 'Marmion') alike.

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[edit] Stay safe

[edit] Get out

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