For day two of our holiday we visited the lively little market town of Hexham, notable for amongst other things its magnificent Abbey Cathedral. People have worshipped on this site for nearly 1400 years.
On top of the moors and in my “home” county.
Whitfield Church in an area known as Little Switerzland
Hexham Abbey
Hexham Abbey
This old English church in Corbridge has utilised a Roman Archway. When the Romans left, local British tribes would use Roman materials for centuries in their own buildings.
At Roman Corbridge, an old Roman garrison
Aydin Castle – 13thcentury building part castle part more modern house.
Sycamore Gap on Hadrians Wall where Kevin Costner in Robin Hodd stayed overnight on the way to Nottingham. It makes no sense as Sherwood Forest is a few hundred miles south… Rather like coming from Mexico to Dallas but camping by The Great Lakes! 
Standing by the Roman Wall, Hadrians Wall. It separated southern Britain and the Roman Empire and the wild north.
I will write a more complete blog on these places at a later date.
What amazing pictures. I’ve heard of some of those places, but I had never seen pictures until now, thank you.
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Thanks Colin, the weather is being unusually nice for the time of year. I hope to write some dedicated posts on some of these places in the coming weeks.
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I’ll be looking forward to them, I can’t wait to learn some of the history behind those places. You have a knack at making history interesting.
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Thanks for the view! It adds to my understanding of my own ancestry, too.
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You’re welcome. Yes lots of people from this part of England moved overseas perhaps due to poor job prospects and very tough lifestyle/climate but apparently they outperformed all other British and likely European migrants so you came from good stock as they say here 🙂
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Wonderful! This is just so much my kind of holiday – history and landscape – and very few people! I have such an affinity with the English landscape I sometimes I think I must feel it through the bones of my ancestors. You’ve given me a new place for my bucket list! Thank you.
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Beautiful scenery indeed.
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