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Extract from the Alnwick Travel Guides:
The unassuming town of
ALNWICK
(pronounced "Annick"), thirty miles north of Newcastle and four miles inland from Alnmouth, is renowned for its castle - seat of the dukes of Northumberland - which overlooks the River Aln immediately to the north of the town centre. Alnwick itself is an appealing market town of cobbled streets and Georgian houses, centred on the old cross in Market Place, site of a weekly market (Saturdays) since the thirteenth century.
The Percys - raised to the dukedom of Northumberland in 1750 - have owned the
Castle
(Easter-Oct daily 11am-5pm; 6.75;
) since...
read the whole Alnwick Travel Guides...
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