Berwick-upon-Tweed



Berwick Museum and Art Gallery - Day outBerwick Museum and Art Gallery
Berwick-upon-Tweed Barracks - Day outBerwick-upon-Tweed Barracks
Berwick-upon-Tweed Castle and Ramparts - Day outBerwick-upon-Tweed Castle and Ramparts
Lady Waterford Hall - Day outLady Waterford Hall
Norham Castle - Day outNorham Castle
Paxton House - Day outPaxton House
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Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Discover the historic town of Berwick, looking and listening to the sights and sounds of the past. Find out about Berwick's heroic Mediaeval story. Wonder at the treasures collected by millionaire Sir William Burrell. See an ever-changing programme o ...

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Berwick-upon-Tweed Barracks

Berwick Barracks, among the first in England to be purpose-built, were begun in 1717 to the design of the distinguished architect Nicholas Hawksmoor. Today the Barracks hosts a number of attractions, including 'By Beat of Drum' - an exhibition on the ...

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Berwick-upon-Tweed Castle and Ramparts

The remains of a medieval castle crucial to Anglo-Scottish warfare, superseded by the most complete and breathtakingly impressive bastioned town defences in England, mainly Elizabethan but updated in the 17th and 18th centuries. Surrounding the whole ...

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Lady Waterford Hall

Lady Waterford Hall was commissioned in 1860 by Louisa Anne, Marchioness of Waterford, and owner of Ford Estate. The building served as a school until 1957 and in its heyday had as many as 134 local children on the register. Now used as the Villag ...

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Norham Castle

Commanding a vital ford over the River Tweed, Norham was one of the strongest of the border castles, and the most often attacked by the Scots. Besieged at least thirteen times - once for nearly a year by Robert Bruce - it was called 'the most dangero ...

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Paxton House

Paxton House and the 80 acre estate were bequeathed to the nation by John Home Roberton and was established as a charitable trust on 17th November 1988. The house is amoungst the finest Palladian Houses in Britain. It contains the pre-eminent Scottis ...