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PLACES
OF INTEREST
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A
stone's throw...
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Capt
Samuel Brown's Union Chain Bridge
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Chain
Bridge Honey Farm and Visitor Centre
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Paxton
House and Country Park..woodland trails, gallery, tea rooms,
exhibitions, net fishing museum and riverside walks
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Within
five miles...
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- Berwick-upon-Tweed..Elizabethan
Walls, Barracks, Cromwellian Parish Church, Maltings Arts Centre,
museums, beaches, sports centre, farm trail
- Norham...Castle,
the setting for Sir Walter Scott's "Marmion"; Station
Museum
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Within
ten miles...
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- Coldstream...home
of the Coldstream Guards, the Hirsel walks
- Ford
and Etal Estate...corn mill, steam railway, castles, Lady Waterford
Hall gallery
- Eyemouth....fishing
port, museums, coastal walks
- Flodden
Field...site of the 1513 Battle between the English and the Scots
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Within
fifteen miles...
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- Holy
Island...Cradle of Christianity, Priory, Castle, fishing village
and harbour, heritage centre, wonderful walks, inns and restaurant,
reached by sea-washed causeway; the end (or start!) of St Cuthbert's
Way
- Coldingham
and St Abbs....seaside walks, beaches, St Abbs Head Nature Reserve
- Chillingham....medieval
castle and the famous wild white cattle, Ros Castle hill fort
- Bamburgh...
ancient capital of Northumbria, Castle, Grace Darling Museum,
beaches
- Duns...border
town, Jim Clark memorial museum, Manderston House (Channel 4's
Edwardian Country House) and gardens
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Within
twenty miles...
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- Wooler...gateway
to the Cheviot Hills and the Northumberland National Park and
on St Cuthbert's Way
- Seahouses...fishing
village and embarkation port for the Farne Islands nature reserve,
beaches
- Kelso...border
town, Abbey, Floors Castle and Mellerstain House,
riverside walks
- Abbey
St Bathans...on the Southern Upland Way, Edin's Hall Broch
- The
Lammermuir Hills
- Preston
Tower...pele tower built in 1392
- Beadnell...fishing
villages, beaches
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...and
much more within easy reach |
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