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Preston Tower is a fourteenth-century pele tower in Preston, Northumberland, England built in 1392. The tower is now a private museum.
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Ellingham, Northumberland
Ellingham is a civil parish in Northumberland, England. The population taken at the 2001 Census was 282, increasing slightly to 288 at the 2011 Census.
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Chathill
Chathill is a hamlet in the civil parish of Ellingham, in Northumberland, England. It is about 9 miles (14 km) north of Alnwick and 3 miles (5 km) inland from the North Sea coast. It is served by Chathill railway station.
It is on the main road serving Seahouses and the northern coast.
Chathill is home to Preston Pele Tower, built between 1392 and 1399. One of its former owners was Sir Guiscard Harbottle of Beamish, who was killed at the Battle of Flodden. The tower has a clock, installed in 1864, which features mechanisms similar to Big Ben.
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Chathill railway station
Chathill is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley. The station, situated 46 miles 1 chain (46.0 mi; 74.0 km) north of Newcastle, serves the hamlet of Chathill, and surrounding coastal villages of Beadnell and Seahouses in Northumberland, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
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RAF Brunton
Royal Air Force Brunton or more simply RAF Brunton is a former Royal Air Force satellite station in Northumberland, England, close to the hamlet of Brunton.
The following units were here at some point:
Satellite for No. 56 Operational Training Unit RAF (December 1944 - May 1945)
Satellite for No. 59 OTU (August 1942 - January 1944)
No. 2772 Squadron RAF Regiment
No. 2879 Squadron RAF Regiment
Fighter Leaders School RAF (1944)