Newtown

Learchild Roman fort

Thrunton · 3.7 miles

Site of Roman fort, described at https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1006440 and thought to be named ALAVNA.

statue of the 3rd Earl of Ravensworth

Thrunton Mill · 5.6 miles

Statue erected in 1905

Percy's Leap

Roddam · 9.9 miles

Two stones 9 metres apart, across which which Sir Ralph Percy is said to have jumped, in 1464, in an event associated with the Battle of Hedgeley.

The Sad Castle

Harbottle · 13 miles

'The Sad Castle' by Felicity Lance, a pupil of Harbottle School, was chosen by the late Ted Hughes, the former Poet Laureate, to win a national Young Writers' Competition in 1997. Her poem has been carved into stone by stonemason, David Edwick.

Tranwell Reservoir

Tranwell Woods · 14 miles

Private nature reserve for wildlife

Bamburgh Research Project Archaeological Site

Bamburgh · 18 miles

Archaeological dig site first excavated by Brian Hope Taylor between 1959 and 1961 and again between 1970 and 1974. This excavation is currently conducted by the Bamburgh Research Project.