Historical County Map of Northumberland
AlnwickCastle features as a beautiful image alongside this reproduction map of Northumberland.
A county town of England, receiving its name from being situated to the N. of the Humber. In the Saxon heptarchy it was part of the kingdom of the Northumbrians, which contained not only the county now called Northumberland, but also Yorkshire, Lancashire, Durham, Cumberland, and Westmoreland. It is seated in the extremity of England, next to Scotland, and is bounded on the E. by the German Ocean, and on the S. by the bishopric of Durham, on the W. and S. W. by Cumberland and on the N. W. and N. by Scotland, from which it is separated by the river Tweed........
A county town of England, receiving its name from being situated to the N. of the Humber. In the Saxon heptarchy it was part of the kingdom of the Northumbrians, which contained not only the county now called Northumberland, but also Yorkshire, Lancashire, Durham, Cumberland, and Westmoreland. It is seated in the extremity of England, next to Scotland, and is bounded on the E. by the German Ocean, and on the S. by the bishopric of Durham, on the W. and S. W. by Cumberland and on the N. W. and N. by Scotland, from which it is separated by the river Tweed........