* Winter – Much of the English town of Alnwick in Northumbria is burnt by a Scottish raiding party.

Alnwick ( ) is a small market town in north Northumberland, England.

According to Country Life, October 2002, " Alnwick is the most picturesque market town in Northumberland, and the best place to live in Britain ".

The town dates back to approximately AD 600, and over the centuries has thrived as an agricultural centre ; as the location of Alnwick Castle and home of what were in mediaeval times the most powerful northern barons, the Earls of Northumberland ; as a staging post on the Great North Road between Edinburgh and London, and latterly as a modern rural centre cum dormitory town.

In 1968 work started on the Alnwick by-pass, intended to remove the A1 London – Edinburgh trunk road from the heart of the town to its outer edge.

The town's greatest building is Alnwick Castle, one of the homes the Duke of Northumberland, and site of The Alnwick Garden ; it dominates the west of the town, above the River Aln.

In mediaeval times, Alnwick was a walled town ( although fluctuating economic situations in the Middle Ages meant the walls were never completed ), and one remain — Hotspur Tower, a mediaeval gate — is extant, dividing Bondgate Within from Bondgate Without, and restricting vehicles to a single lane used alternately in each direction.

Outside the line of the walls, the old railway station building is relatively ostentatious for such a small town, arising out of its frequent use by royal travellers visiting the Duke and Alnwick Castle.

Alnwick Castle ( ) is a castle and stately home in the town of the same name in the English county of Northumberland.

Between 1887 and 1965 the town was served by Wooler railway station on the Alnwick to Cornhill Branch.

Amble was in the former Alnwick district based in the town of Alnwick.

Morpeth was described, in 1540, by the royal antiquary John Leland, as " long and metely well-builded, with low houses ," and as " a far fairer town than Alnwick.

It was the third Henry Percy who purchased Alnwick Castle in 1309 from Antony Bec, Bishop of Durham and guardian of the last De Vesci, and from that time the fortunes of the Percys, though they still held their Yorkshire estates, were linked permanently with the little town on the Aln, and the fortress which commanded and defended it.

Its council was based in Alnwick town and the district had a population of 31, 029 according to the 2001 census.

The river gives its name to the town of Alnwick and to the village of Alnmouth, and its source, Alnham in the Cheviot Hills.

The Tenantry Column is a monument to the south of Alnwick town centre, in Northumberland, England.

The county court for Northumberland was held at different times at Newcastle, Alnwick and Morpeth, until by statute of 1549 it was ordered that the court should thenceforth be held in the town and castle of Alnwick.

It ran from Alnmouth railway station, on the East Coast Main Line, to the town of Alnwick, a distance of.

In 1903, it was defined to consist of the townships of Alnwick, Haldimand and Hamilton, and the town of Cobourg.

It includes at its northern-most point the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed itself and stretches south, to cover the towns of Alnwick and Amble.

Alnwick lies at ( 55. 417,

The Kielder and Prudhoe buildings of the Gosforth site were completed in the early 1990s, behind which lies the distinctive glass-fronted Alnwick building.

Being such a stopping point on the A1 ( particularly in such a rural area ) provides Alnwick with a lot of passing trade and tourism.

Belford is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England about halfway between Alnwick and Berwick-upon-Tweed, a few miles inland from the east coast and just off the Great North Road, the A1.

A relatively obscure memorial to Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, victor of the Battle of Trafalgar, is situated by the old A1 ( the great road between Morpeth and Alnwick, according to an 1868 gazetteer ), at Swarland in north Northumberland, England.

The new " Lionheart " station at Alnwick is on a different site from the original Alnwick station due to the A1 dual carriageway being built across the original trackbed after closure.

The main East Coast railway link between Edinburgh ( journey time approximately 1: 10 ) and London ( journey time approximately 3: 45 ) runs via the nearby Alnmouth for Alnwick Station, with a weekday service of 15 trains per day north to Edinburgh and 13 trains per day south to London.

Alnwick was once connected to the main line by the Alnwick branch line, but this was closed in January 1968 during the time of the Beeching Axe.

) Just over 50 % of the population was located in the three main towns of Alnwick ( 7, 600 ), Amble ( 6, 100 ) and Rothbury ( 2, 500 ), with the remainder dispersed across large and small villages, hamlets and isolated dwellings.

* Alnwick Castle-the Percy family's main seat.

While marching north again, Malcolm was ambushed by Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumbria, whose lands he had devastated, near Alnwick on 13 November 1093.

The Scots realisation reaches as far south as the mouth of the north Esk in north Cumbria, crossing Cumbria and skirting the foot of the Cheviots before reaching the east coast at Bamburgh some 12 miles north of Alnwick.

The earl later rebelled against King Henry IV and after defeating the earl in the Battle of Shrewsbury, the king chased him north to Alnwick.

The exterior of Alnwick Castle from the north west

While marching north again, Malcolm was ambushed by Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumbria, whose lands he had devastated, near Alnwick on 13 November 1093.

It is about 20 km north of Alnwick, within the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The road continues through more open coastal areas towards Amble and continues approximately to the north to Alnmouth, then winds on to Alnwick.

Despite the fact that the official seat of the Northumberlands was at Alnwick, sixty miles to the north, family ties were important and he moved to build a splendid new Stanwick Hall half a mile to the south which he would use as a country retreat.

Anick should not be confused with Alnwick, pronounced, a town also in Northumberland but some further north.

It is situated on the north side of the River Aln, about two miles ( 3 km ) east by north from Whittingham, and miles west from Alnwick.

It is about south west of Alnwick, and about north west of Rothbury, and has a population of 97.

It is about north of Alnwick and inland from the North Sea coast.