ISBN: 0 300 09638 0
The county's remarkable and richly varied military architecture, from Hadrian's Wall to
Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the valleys of the Coquet and the Aln
or standing proudly by the sea at Holy Island and Tynemouth. Newcastle upon Tyne has the
most elegant nineteenth-century city centre in England. Elsewhere the distinctive smaller towns
include Alnwick, dominated by its castle, Hexham with its priory, brick-built Morpeth, and
Berwick-upon-Tweed, ringed with exceptional sixteenth-century fortifications. Great country
houses range from Vanbrugh's theatrical Seaton Delaval to Sir Charles Monck's austere Belsay
and Norman Shaw's romantic Cragside. Monuments of a great industrial past, as well as a wealth
of smaller buildings, such as bastles (unique to the Border country), are all vividly described in
this revised guide to Northumberland's architectural pleasures.
