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Bamburgh Castle, on the northeast coast of England, by the village of Bamburgh in Northumberland, is a Grade I listed building. [ 2 ] The site was originally the location of a Celtic Brittonic fort known as Din Guarie and may have been the capital of the kingdom of Bernicia from its foundation c. 420 to 547.
Lindisfarne Festival is an annual music and creative arts festival which takes place in Northumberland, United Kingdom. The festival operates from Beal Farm, and is close to the coast, overlooking Lindisfarne Island (Holy Island), and Bamburgh Castle. The first Lindisfarne Festival took place over the weekend of 4 and 5 September 2015, with ...
He is a northerner with the title of 'earl', but it is uncertain if he was ruler of Bamburgh or related to the Eadwulfing line of Bamburgh rulers. [13] Eadred: fl. c. 1000 Another northerner with the title of 'earl', but it is uncertain if he was ruler of Bamburgh or related to the Eadwulfing line of Bamburgh rulers. [13] Uhtred: fl. 1009–16
Bamburgh (/ ˈ b æ m b ər ə / BAM-bər-ə) is a village and civil parish on the coast of Northumberland, England. It had a population of 454 in 2001, [3] decreasing to 414 at the 2011 census. [4] Bamburgh was the centre of an independent north Northumbrian territory between 867 and 954. Bamburgh Castle was built by the Normans on the site of ...
The Forsters of Etherstone, Co Durham and Bamburgh, a long-established and prolific Northumbrian family, provided twelve successive Governors of Bamburgh Castle over a period of 400 years, but the family was ultimately ruined as a result of their part in the Jacobite risings in the 18th century. They subsequently lived for over 100 years at ...
Uhtred of Bamburgh (Uhtred the Bold—sometimes Uchtred; died ca. 1016), was ruler of Bamburgh and from 1006 to 1016 the ealdorman of Northumbria. He was the son of Waltheof I , ruler of Bamburgh (Bebbanburg) , whose family the Eadwulfingas had ruled the surrounding region for over a century.
In the Kingdom of Northumbria, a kind king in Bamburgh Castle takes a beautiful but cruel witch as his queen after his wife's death. The King's son, Childe Wynd, has gone across the sea and the witch, jealous of the beauty of the king’s daughter, Princess Margaret, and quick to take advantage of Wynd’s absence, turns her into a dragon.
Bamburgh Castle, Dunstanburgh Castle, Lindisfarne Castle and stretches of Hadrian's Wall all strategically take advantage of high, rocky cliff lines formed by the sill. The Whin Sill complex is usually divided into three components: Holy Island Sill , Alnwick Sill and the Hadrian's Wall-Pennines Sill , which were created by separate magma flows ...