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Extract from the Bamburgh Travel Guides:
Flanking a triangular green in the lee of its castle, three miles north of Seahouses, the tiny village of
BAMBURGH
is only a five-minute walk from two splendid sandy beaches, backed by rolling, tufted dunes. From the sands
Bamburgh Castle
(April-Oct daily 11am-5pm; 4.50;
) is a spectacular sight, its elongated battlements crowning a formidable basalt crag high above the beach. This beautiful spot was first fortified by the Celts, but its heyday was as an Anglo-Saxon stronghold, one-time capital of Northumbria and the protector of the preserved head and hand of St Oswald, the seventh-century king who invit...
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