Bamburgh

We left Scotland after an eventful few weeks. Northumberland welcomed us with a little shower of rain. We stayed on Fowberry Farm, a small site on a working farm which has a great view of Bamburgh Castle, an impressive structure built by the Normans.
The castle overlooks the Farne Islands and Holy Island to the north, standing proud on a huge rock formation above the surrounding sand dunes. It is here that Grace Darling undertook heroics with her father and became a Victorian celebrity.
We had a quick visit to Seahouses, a village full of tourist buses clearly benefiting from its proximity to the castle and the isles. A small main street tumbling down to a concrete harbour.
A walked across the fields to Bamburgh village which has the usual array of amenities based around a central woody triangle.Read more