Northumberland’s proximity to Scotland, as a site for border wars, reivers’ raids and rebellions, means that the county’s breathtaking landscape is peppered with fortified farm houses.
For family historians on the hunt, there are numerous archives that may hold material relating to your kin. For that reason local expertise is invaluable, so the website of the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society (ndfhs.org.uk) may prove a useful starting point.
The society’s research centre closed its doors in early 2020 before the first lockdown. Although they did reopen during one period of eased restrictions, in the
