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    HIGH CASTLE COUNTRY

    Jul 31, 2020 3 minutes
    WORDS CAROLINE WHEATER

    THE ULTIMATE CASTLE

    BAMBURGH CASTLE, BAMBURGH

    Imposing Bamburgh Castle, built on a 150ft-high escarpment, has views of the Farne Islands and Holy Island. It was the capital of the Northumbrian Kings in the sixth century, duly ransacked in 993 by the Vikings, and a century later was the northern garrison for William the Conqueror’s army. Thankfully in the late 1800s, it became the restoration project of Victorian inventor and industrialist William Armstrong, who made his fortune in hydraulics. Now beautifully restored, Bamburgh

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