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Parc national du Northumberland
Le parc national du Northumberland est un parc national anglais situé entre la frontière écossaise et le Mur d'Hadrien. Il couvre une surface de 1 049 km2 et on y trouve les monts Cheviot. On y trouve des landes, des forêts, des tourbières, et des vestiges du mur d'Hadrien. Parc national le plus septentrional d'Angleterre, c’est l’un des parcs nationaux les moins peuplés et les moins visités du pays. Le symbole officiel du parc est le courlis cendré.
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1.2 km
Ramsey's Burn Wood
Ramsey's Burn Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within Northumberland National Park, Northumberland, England. This protected area is a woodland dominated by alder trees located north of the village of Otterburn. The protected area is within the Otterburn Training Area that is used for military training.
This site was formerly notified as part of Harbottle Moors SSSI.
3.9 km
Harbottle Moors
Harbottle Moors is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within Northumberland National Park, in Northumberland, England. It is located near the village of Alwinton. The River Coquet forms the northern border of this protected area.
The area is protected because of its blanket bog over peat and also because of its dry heath. Notable plant species include sundew, bog-orchid, sweet gale and lesser skullcap.
The protected area includes two lakes and birds including teal, little grebe and black-headed gulls have been recorded here. Black grouse, ring ouzel and whinchat have been recorded in moorland habitat within this protected area.
Most of the land area designated as Harbottle Moors SSSI is owned by the Ministry of Defence (part of it falls within Otterburn Training Area). The southwestern section around Drake Stone is owned by the Forestry Commission. In this southwestern region, Northumberland Wildlife Trust manage the area around Harbottle Crags.
6.3 km
Barrow Meadow
Barrow Meadow is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in north Northumberland, England. The site is a species-rich hay meadow of a sort now rare in Northumberland.
6.6 km
River Alwin
The River Alwin is a short, steep upland river that drains the Kidland Forest on the southern flanks of the Cheviot Hills, in the Northumberland National Park, England. It is a tributary of the River Coquet and 2.7 miles (4.3 km) in length.
6.9 km
Alwinton
Alwinton (previously named "Allenton" and sometimes still referred to as this) is a village and former parish in Northumberland, England. Alwinton is named after the nearby River Alwin, and means farm on the River Alwin.
Alwinton lies at the head of the Coquet valley, on the edge of both the Otterburn Army Training Estate and the Northumberland National Park. The village is roughly 10 miles (16 km) from the border with Scotland, and about 18 miles (29 km) to the west of Alnwick.
The neighbouring village of Harbottle and Harbottle Castle are about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) from Alwinton. A road continues past Alwinton into the Cheviot Hills where it terminates at the ancient Roman military encampment of Chew Green.
Having no shops, Alwinton's social life centres on the Rose and Thistle Inn, a public house owned by the Latchams. Regular Church of England services are offered at St. Michael and All Angels, which traditionally serves the parish of Alwinton encompassing the nearby townships of Biddlestone, Burradon, Clennell, Fairhaugh, Farnham, Linbriggs, Netherton, Peels, and Sharperton. In the early 21st century several of rural Northumberland's least populated parishes were merged into slightly larger units, and Alwinton was one example, being merged with the neighbouring Biddlestone (where from the Census 2011 the population is included).