History of Northumberland

North Sea Germanic people, from the eponymous area

Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic Christianity under Saints Aidan, Cuthbert, Eadfrith, and Eadberht of Lindisfarne. The island was originally home to a monastery, which was destroyed during the Viking invasions but re-established as a priory following the Norman Conquest of England. Other notable sites built on the island are St Mary the Virgin parish church (originally b

Bernicia () was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom established by Anglian settlers of the 6th century in what is now southeastern Scotland and North East England.

Grade I listed historic house museum in Bamburgh, United Kingdom

Cuthbert () ( – 20 March 687) was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition. He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria, today in north-eastern England and south-eastern Scotland. Both during his life and after his death, he became a popular medieval saint of Northern England, with a cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral. Cuthbert is regarded as the patron saint of Northumbria. His feast days are 20 March (Catholic Church, Church of England, Eastern Orthodox Church, Episcopal Church) a

King of Deira and Bernicia

early steam locomotive

castle and stately home in Alnwick, Northumberland, England, UK; seat of the Duke of Northumberland, England, UK

area of northern Britain ruled by the Brythonic people in the 5-7th century

English inventor, scientist, engineer, industrialist (1810-1900)

King of the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia

Bishop of Rochester; Archbishop of York; Saint

Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it pre-dated. Archaeological excavations of the site show it was under Roman occupation from roughly 85 AD to 370 AD. Located near the modern village of Bardon Mill in Northumberland, it guarded the Stanegate, the Roman road from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth. It is noted for the Vindolanda tablets, a set of wooden leaf-tablets that were, at the time of their discovery, the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain.

Roman writing tablets found in England

6th-century English monarch

Rothbury is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the River Coquet. It is north-west of Morpeth and north of Newcastle upon Tyne. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 2,107.

Bernician monarch

saint

medieval castle in Warkworth, Northumberland, England, UK

96-mile long border between England and Scotland

King of Bernicia

Noble title in the Peerage of England and in the Peerage of Great Britain

Ruler of Bernica

Noble title in the Peerage of England and of Great Britain

monarch

right|280px|Peoples of northern Britain according to Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography

Roman fort in Northumberland, England, UK

form of prehistoric art

castle, now ruinous, in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England, UK

second wife of Edwin of Northumbria

Diocesan bishop in the Church of England

8th-century Bishop of Hexham

type of small fortified keep or tower house found on the sides of the English-Scottish border

thumb|350px|Forts on Stanegate and Hadrian's wall

Harbottle is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England about south-east of the Scottish border, in the southeastern part of the Cheviot Hills and inside Northumberland National Park. The village is the site of Harbottle Castle built by order of Henry II. Now in ruins, the castle was constructed by the Umfraville family to protect against invaders from Scotland.

suspension bridge over the Anglo-Scottish border

historic coastal site in north-eastern England

archaeological site in Corbridge, Northumberland, England, UK

Grade I listed castle in Edlingham, United Kingdom

Roman road that ran from York to the Antonine Wall

Grade I listed castle in Morpeth, United Kingdom

Roman fort (castrum) on Stanegate in northern Britain

Grade I listed castle in Mitford, Northumberland, England, UK

Grade I listed castle in Thirlwall, Northumberland, England, UK

ancient Roman sandstone sculpture

English politician, landowner and Jacobite

castle in Wark on Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK

fortified house of the Anglo-Scottish border

river in Northumberland, United Kingdom

English noble

raiders from late 1200s to the beginning of the 1600s along the Anglo-Scottish border

abbey in Morpeth, Northumberland, England, UK

historic site in England, UK