Northumberland National Park
If you wish to discover a landscape of limitless beauty and a welcome that is warm and genuine then Northumberland National Park, the land of the far horizons, will provide an experience you will not want to forget. From exploring the World Heritage Site of Hadrian’s Wall in the south to striding through the grandeur of the Cheviot Hills in the north, there is so much to do. Through its heart run the majestic rivers of the North Tyne, Rede and Coquet where otters play, salmon leap and fishermen dream. This is also a rugged borderland, where its violent Reiver past challenges you in the form of castles and fortified farms (Bastles), which pepper this historic landscape.
The ‘gateway’ market towns of Rothbury, Bellingham and Wooler provide shops you want to walk into, local food you want to buy and local facilities such as golf courses, historic houses, irresistible hill and riverside walks. For cyclists, a wonderful network of quiet lanes links picturesque villages where pubs and cafes provide cosy breaks between exhilarating rides. Whatever you do, Northumberland National Park will remain a fantastic memory for years.
Did you know?
Northumberland National Park is one of the most tranquil areas in Britain with some of the darkest night skies. Its distant views and wide open spaces have earned it the epithet ‘Land of the Far Horizons’.
It supports many rare species of animals and plants including black grouse, red squirrel, white clawed crayfish, otters, ring ouzel, juniper, Jacobs ladder and bog orchid.
People have lived here for 11,000 years since the last Ice Age and this has created one of the most important but least recognised archaeological landscapes in the world, unsurpassed for the quality and quantity of its archaeological remains.
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