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North Northumberland Online covers the beautiful area from Alnwick to Berwick upon Tweed in England's most northern county. Steeped in history, this quiet and peaceful region offers great scenery, magnificent castles and a warm welcome to visitors...

Sounds of the countryside

Listen in as spring arrives in Northumberland. These three stereo audio clips (each lasting 60-90 seconds) were recorded near Belford on Wednesday 6 May 2009. The photographs were taken at each location at the same time.

First is the sound of the Belford Burn recorded at 6am, second a point on the public footpath north-west of the village (8am) and finally a small oak wood on Juniper Hill further on to the north-west (7am). If you would like to do this walk, see footpath number one.

Google Street View may visit Bamburgh Castle this summer

Bamburgh Castle is on a shortlist of 16 historic landmarks that could be visited by Google Street View this summer. Google has narrowed down a list of 10,000 tourist spots that were suggested by the public. A special trike with mounted cameras (and pedals!) will be used. No parts of North Northumberland have been photographed by the service yet but it does have some spectacular satellite images of the area.

Fireworks at Belford on New Year's Eve

At the stroke of midnight the Market Place at Belford was lit up by an impressive ten-minute fireworks show to welcome in 2009.

Here is our exclusive video of the final four minutes of the action — hot off the edit suite!

Available as: Flash/h.264 | Windows Media

New Year fireworks at Belford welcome in 2009

Explore the area

Visit castles and harbours on our beautiful coastline. Or perhaps you'd prefer to head inland where you can explore a picturesque village or market town?

Click here to see our interactive map.
Bluebells in an oak wood at Juniper Hill near Belford

Games to Play

Games to play: Dots, Concentration, Crab Race and Guess the Country.

Getting here

Find out how to get to North Northumberland by car, bus or train. Details on our travel page.

Singin' Hinnies

How to make 'Singin' Hinnies' — a traditional Northumbrian delicacy. Plus other recipes.

EXTERNAL LINKS

North Sunderland Railway

A film from 1928 shows the railway line that linked Bamburgh, Seahouse and North Sunderland. Watch it on the British Pathe website. More details about the line at Northumbrian Railways.

Grimm's Northumberland sketchbooks

Swiss artist Samuel Hieronymus Grimm sketched Northumberland in the late 18th century.

See his pen and ink drawings of Bamburgh, Holy Island, Alnwick and more in an online exhibition at the British Library website.

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