Briarwood Banks

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Briarwood Banks is one of 101 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Northumberland. The surrounding countryside is part of the North Pennines National Landscape. Bardon Mill Station is about 2.7 km away to the north-west. For more of the same, Stawardpeel Woods and Whitfield Moor and Ashholme Common are close by.

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