Shilbottle

Learchild Roman fort

Thrunton · 6.2 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 · 8.1 miles

Statue erected in 1905

Percy's Leap

Roddam · 12 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.

Tranwell Reservoir

Tranwell Woods · 16 miles

Private nature reserve for wildlife

Bamburgh Research Project Archaeological Site

Bamburgh · 17 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.

The Sad Castle

Harbottle · 17 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.