Any suggestions for my trip to Northumberland ...

[scooterscot]

PS, I think the Geordie slappers are the best attraction in the NE.

[DimPrawn]

You can get a fast train from Newcastle to London and be in Wandsworth within 4 hours.

HTH

[Sysman]

PS, I think the Geordie slappers are the best attraction in the NE.

Top notch. You can see the Scandinavian influence.

But back on topic, loads of useful looking links at Northumberland Coast.

[ChrisPackit]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Alnwick Castle - the famous setting for the Harry Potter films - with a bit of googling that's the first thing of interest I found...

[OwlHoot]

I'm taking some well deserved time off next week with the family and parents, and are heading up to Northumberland on my parents recommendation. Renting a nice cottage on the coast with a hot tub etc so looking forward to chilling out. Anyone got any suggestions for things to do in the Alnwick, Alnmouth, Seahouses area?

Was planning on a day in Edinburgh, maybe a day in Berwick perhaps, maybe a trip to Lindisfarne (the island not the naff 80's band that is )

Any ideas on things to do and see, chaps?

(BTW, this is a family orientated holiday, so please no suggestions for cocaine fuelled benders in lap dancing bars... )

Isn't that waterfall where they filmed the stave fight in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves in Northumberland?

edit: Just looked it up, and according to this it was filmed in Aysgarth Falls in the Yorkshire Dales National Park

[Sysman]

Isn't that waterfall where they filmed the stave fight in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves in Northumberland?

edit: Just looked it up, and according to this it was filmed in Aysgarth Falls in the Yorkshire Dales National Park

If the OP is heading that way on the return journey, there's also England`s highest unbroken waterfall at Hardraw Force. Not to be advised if it's chucking it down though; it can suffer from flash floods.

[Doggy Styles]

1) It's on the way to Scotland? Home of free prescriptions, education and democracy.

That's even worse - he can sit on the freezing beach looking up the coast at what he could have won...

[Fred Bloggs]

Pretty decent fish and chips in Seahouses, IIRC.

[dang65]

Plus one vote for the Angel of the North. Awesome work of art. Though, like most of the recommendations here, it's nowhere near Northumbria.

I'm very wary of places like this, where nearly all the recommended sites of interest are not actually local. I remember most of the Dusseldorf guidebooks listing Cologne as the number one attraction. Cologne is a good half hour train ride away. (Actually Dusseldorf is very nice, they shouldn't put themselves down like that. Maybe it's a German joke.) In the case of Northumbria, far better to base yourself in North Yorkshire, or Newcastle, or Edinburgh, and take a day trip to Northumbria.

[EternalOptimist]

This may be a bit of a stretch, but Berwick is a nice town, and an even bigger stretch, there is a real nice town North of the border called North Berwick
I have heard more people say that North Berwick is the best place in Britain, than any other place


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