MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
We will be in touch
Any ideas/experiences from the STW hive mind?
Some of these things:
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/anyone-know-ryton-northumbria-family-stuff-to-do-in-the-vicinity
Dinner in the Red Lion in Alnmouth. Fantastic..!
HtS - get yer own ideas, don't copy me! PS I will let you know how we went on when we get back if you like. Has your Missus produced yet, then?
Have used these 3 time now......
[url] http://www.northumbria-cottages.co.uk/index.html [/url]
Alnmouth is a very nice place to stay. Fairly central for Alnwick, Holy Island, Bamburgh and so on. Seahouses is good for the kids in the penny arcades.
[i]Dinner in the Red Lion in Alnmouth. Fantastic..![/i]
Might try it Saturday then. Staying at the Hope & Anchor over the road.
Google Yacht Cottage, Holy Island.
we stayed in Walkworth (it has a castle..!) Nice little village near a beach. You could go to Cragside house, that would kill a day if you walk the grounds then do the house. Banbury Castle and Beach are really nice and if you were still a bit stuck a train to edinburgh is only about an hour fron Berwick upon Tweed.
Its a smashing part of the world!
Hmmm was highly recommended to us so we tried it. Disappointed, only Alnwick Castle really interested us. Coast was a not as impressive as described but then we are on the coast in Cornwall:-)
Craster is lovely. We spent a week in a cottage by the harbour. It's got a good walk to Dunstanburgh Castle.
DOn't expect to swim in the sea unless you're tough
We made the HUGE mistake of staying at Haggerston castle earlier this year, utter garbage place!
Northumberland itself is a stunning part of the country, Alnwick Castle and garden's are great, also a cracking leisure centre in Alnwick with good pool. Keilder, holy isle etc etc
I will be heading back again next year but staying as far away as possible from Chaverston castle 😆
Hmmm was highly recommended to us so we tried it. Disappointed, only Alnwick Castle really interested us. Coast was a not as impressive as described but then we are on the coast in Cornwall:-)
You went to the wrong places then. Sorry it didn't measure up.
It's a mighty fine part of the world seems well covered in both threads. Yeah the Red Lion is getting it self a good name but also worth heading up the road to Rennington to the Horse Shoes, ignore the décor as the food is good old pub grub and nice beers too.
Rhys is the first person I've ever heard say the beaches aren't impressive but still each to their own and probably went to the wrong one.
Embleton beach. Dunstanburgh castle, Simonside hills. Border ridge. Keilder. Carriage drive in Rothbury
Yeah the Red Lion is getting it self a good name but also worth heading up the road to Rennington to the Horse Shoes
Went to the Red Lion by chance when staying up in Alnwick a few weeks ago. I'll give the Horse Shoes a try, too, when we're next up there.
The North east is one of the few remaining places in England where I feel I can get away from people.
Got sunburnt walking on the beach back towards Dunstanburgh in September..!
Yeah September was a cracking month but then often we get some of the best weather in September.
[i]Coast was a not as impressive as described but then we are on the coast in Cornwall:-)[/i]
EH? I know Cornwall's good but Northumberland is probably the most underrated county in Britain.
I adore Northumberland. Great place, lovely people!
Some pointers;
Bamburgh - What a beach!
Holy Island - Lovely
Farne Islands - Ditto
There is not a single decent place for a big bowl of soup, crab sandwich and a few pints of brilliant beer in Low Newton. Not one, I tell you. So, not worth going there at all. Terrible place. Honest. No, really. 😉
Just got back from Alnmouth, stayed at the Hope & Anchor, didn't go to the Red Lion but the food in the Anchor was sooo-perb! Will be back next March. Went to Lindisfarne today, what a special little place that is! Cresswell beach/Druridge Bay yesterday & again today on the way back, i had my Bye-noculars & as far as I could see (just about all the way to Amble, 5 miles away)there were 6 people on the beach, including us two. Now thats special as well!
We've been a couple of times - stayed near Alnwick 4-5 years ago, which was very nice, though the castle is touristy in peak season, best go when it's quieter if possible. Loads to do - awesome beaches, great castles, great fish and chips at Seahouses in a proper tacky seaside way
This year we stayed on the scottish side of the National Park - still only 45 minutes to the coast, but opened up Jedburgh, Hawick and Edinburgh for day trips as well. Loads to do for kids of all ages, lots of farm parks for younger ones. Not that we bothered, as our cottage was 20 yards from the lambing barn at the height of the lambing season. Our kids - aged 2 and 5 at the time - now understand that life can be cruel and yes, that sheep and those lambs are actually dead! 🙁
[i]Amble, 5 miles away)there were 6 people on the beach, including us two. Now thats special as well! [/i]
Blimey a busy day then.
Yeah we're lucky up here it's cracking area that goes pretty much undiscovered.
I once read about someones's grandad (don't even think about asking)who was from Northumbria & told people not to go cos it was 'all pit heaps & nowt else'
No wonder it's still largely unspoilt & quiet!
As a kid I must have been at least once every year to Northumberland on a family holiday from 91 - 00. You'd think I'd be sick of it, but actually I can't wait to get the chance to go again!
pedalled from Alnmouth to Lockerbue via Hexham last weekend. Beatifil countryside and great roads for road riding. Seemed a lovely area, lots of pretty but "real" vilages
[i]I once read about someones's grandad (don't even think about asking)who was from Northumbria & told people not to go cos it was 'all pit heaps & nowt else[/i]
South East Northumberland was hundreds of pits right up the east coast to just south of Alnwick.
This was after the pits had closed! He didn't want visitors apparently!
Hehehe! Ah well it's a nice area I can see why.
It's horrible. Keep well away and tell everyone else not to bother.
The locals are friendly though.