You’lldiscover it nestled atop a rocky outcrop along Northumberland’s coastand within the charming village ofBamburgh. Bamburgh Castle played a key role in the War of the Roses and has been restored to its former glory. Fromthe beachbelow, it is an impressive sight to behold. Did you know?
Bamburgh, Northumberland, England. Built on a dolerite outcrop, on the coast, the location was previously the site of a fort of the native Britons known as Din Guarie and may have been the capital of the local British kingdom from the realm's foundation in c.420 until 547. In that ...
Most colleges contend to be fortresses of learning, but Arcadia University in the suburbs north of Philadelphia can back it up with battlements acquired in 1929. Grey Towers was built by eclectic sugar refiner William Welsh Harrison between 1893 and 1898 and modeled after Northumberland’s Alnwick...
pre-Medieval castle and stately home with wings and turrets constructed as early as the 1090's. The Percy family, Dukes of Northumberland, have owned Alnwick since the fourteenth century, and still live in part of the property. There's a funky-looking "treehouse restaurant" in the castle's...