I'm off to Northumberland for a few days at the end of the month, going to visit Bamburgh castle. Mainly because it's where some books that I like are set and I'm curious what it's like, supposedly it was impregnable at the time when the Vikings were sniffing around.
Nacho, nice there but for me Seahouses better for a stoat about, mile or two down the coast. Proper place with folk working but nice harbour etc too. Always feel like Bamburgh's a film set or something, although the beach is crazy amazing. If you get the chance the boats to the seals on the Farne islands are a good couple of hours, sail from seahouses. A pint in the ship by the harbour is also good, especially if sunny, with a massive picturesque beer garden. Hope you enjoy it pal, lovely part of the world that, like a flatter lake district with a tenth of the tourists.
Has anybody walked the length of Hadrians Wall? I planned to do it this summer, but I just won't have the time this year.
Nacho, Just been on Wiki, and the Vikings destroyed Bamburgh Castle in 993. The present castle was built much later.
Still one of my favourite places on the planet, and I’m pretty well travelled. You’ll love it. If you drive into the village from the north side you come over the brow of a hill and see the castle in context of its surroundings - it’s hugely impressive. You just can’t beat that combo of castle, sand dunes and massive fooking beach plus the village and pub. You can sit in the dunes and visualise the Vikings rocking up in their longboats.
The main character and Lord of Bamburgh was around about a hundred years before that so at least he can claim it was impregnable in his lifetime haha. Supposedly the last fortress in England to fall to the Vikings but they are novels and the author might be taking a romantic view of it.
Are they the Bernard Cornwell ones? He's usually fairly historically accurate although obviously he uses a fair amount of licence to make a good story. 993 is late for the Viking period so it may well be the last English fortress to fall to Scandinavian raiders. As you'll probably know, there is very little built heritage left extant from the viking/Anglo-Saxon periods but Bamburgh is still worth a visit.
They are indeed mate I love his books. I think he does try and stick to historical fact as much as possible and the fictional parts are incidental to the main story.
Yeah, I love his books too. I've not read those ones but I've read a lot of his others. I started out reading the Sharpe ones
I remember going there on school trips as a kid and how beautiful it was. Wasn’t the beach and castle the setting for the old film El Cid?
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