Villages & towns in NorthumberlandNorthumberland, England

Handsome market town of limestone townhouses gathered below a great castle, with a famous garden and a bookshop in the old station.

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Green-fringed coastal village under a towering castle, with one of England's grandest beaches sweeping north toward the Farne Islands.

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Tiny stone fishing village famous for its oak-smoked kippers, with the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle a walk along the coast.

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England's northernmost town, ringed by Elizabethan ramparts and spanned by three bridges over the Tweed that Lowry painted for decades.

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Pretty Tyne-side market village of honey-stone houses, independent shops and a Saxon-towered church built from Roman stone.

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Pastel-fronted estuary village on a sandy spit where the River Aln meets the sea, ringed by dunes and one of England's oldest golf courses.

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A three-sided square of whitewashed fishermen's cottages opening straight onto the sands of Newton Haven and Embleton Bay.

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Cobbled abbey village of honey-coloured stone in the Derwent valley, reputed one of England's prettiest.

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Thatched estate village on the River Till, with a ruined castle and Northumberland's only thatched pub at the end of a light railway.

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Historic Tyne Valley town built around a great Anglo-Saxon abbey, with the oldest purpose-built prison in England and a lively market.

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Loop of the River Coquet cradling a medieval village of stone houses climbing to a castle, with a beach and river hermitage nearby.

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Quiet inland village behind the dunes of Embleton Bay, its links and beach looking out to Dunstanburgh Castle.

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Estate village of the Ford & Etal lands, home to Lady Waterford Hall and its celebrated Victorian biblical wall murals.

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Peaceful Tweed-side village of stone cottages around a broad green, once capital of the Prince Bishops' liberty of Norhamshire.

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Working harbour village of colourful cottages and fish-and-chip shops, the launch point for boat trips to the Farne Islands.

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Stone-built 'capital of Coquetdale' rising in terraces above the river, a walking base for Simonside and Cragside.

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Moorland village in the East Allen valley, its square famed for the flaming tar-barrel procession that sees in the new year.

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Friendly harbour town at the mouth of the Coquet, its quayside dotted with fish shacks and beach-hut pods facing Coquet Island.

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North Tyne village on the Pennine Way, gateway to Kielder and the starting point for the woodland walk to Hareshaw Linn.

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Old fishing and mining town on a broad bay, with the county's longest promenade and Sean Henry's 'Couple' standing out on the water.

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The last village up Coquetdale, where the Alwin meets the Coquet, a remote start for walks into the high Cheviots.

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Small village at the northern end of Druridge Bay, backed by dunes and nature reserves rich in birdlife.

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Small grey-stone market town on the edge of the Cheviots, a long-standing gateway for walkers into the College and Harthope valleys.

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