Northumberland Coast AONB Is Now in a Handy Magazine Format
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2019/20 FREE ...to the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Front Cover Natural Beauty. This year’s winning photograph was taken by Embleton Our much-loved annual visitor guide to the photographer, Andy Craig. Northumberland Coast AONB is now in a www.Northumberland360.com handy magazine format. With 48 pages full of features and useful information to help you Since we published our first Visitor discover this stunning part of the world, you’ll Guide way back in 2010, we’ve run be able to make the most of your visit in your a competition to find the front cover own way and at your own pace. image for the following year’s guide. Last year saw us celebrate 60 years of our This year, the judges were looking for designation with a series of events to mark an image that not only summed up the special anniversary. It gave people the what the AONB ‘means’ to so many, chance to share their energy and enthusiasm but also one that would work with the Welcome... for the area whilst helping us focus on how new A4 format of our Visitor Guide. we can all preserve the AONB in years to The perspective of Andy’s photograph come. Our front cover photo reminds us how along the beach towards Dunstanburgh to do this: Castle, with its human and canine footprints, met that brief perfectly. ‘Take only photos, leave only footprints’. Andy said: “This photograph summarises what Northumberland means to me. A quiet beach at sunrise with my footprints leaving their trail beside Daisy’s paw prints ... I have seen Cllr Jeff Watson many such sunrises and I try to find Chair of the something unique to photograph every Northumberland Coast day so I can share those moments on AONB Partnership my blog. This beautiful and fragile coast, that is so well protected by its status as Photo Credits: Ian Kille, Claire Thorburn, an AONB, is my inspiration”. Iain Robson, Gavin Duthie, Andy Craig, David Feige, Grace Darling Museum The runner up was Margaret Whittaker. Highly commended was awarded to Published by Norma McKellar. Their images can be viewed on our website, along with the terms and conditions for next year’s photographic competition: Offstone Publishing, Unit 1, Bearl Farm, Stocksfield, Northumberland, NE43 7AL. 01661 844 115 www.northumberlandcoastaonb.org [email protected] ©Offstone Publishing 2019. All rights reserved. No part of this Could one of your photos be on the magazine may be reproduced without the written permission front cover of next year’s guide? of the publisher. All information contained in this magazine is as far as we are aware, correct at the time of going to press. 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Offstone Publishing does not guarantee the insertion org/visitor-guide/ of any particular advertisement on a specified date or at all. 2 www.northumberlandcoastaonb.org Beadnell Bay The Northumberland Coast Area of further protection because of the rarity of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) their features; even the shallow seas have covers an area of 138 sq km along 64km been designated a European Marine Site of the coastline between Berwick-upon- because of their outstanding marine wildlife. Tweed and the Coquet Estuary. It contains some of Britain’s most important historic We hope you enjoy your free copy of and cultural sites, and some of the most the Northumberland Coast AONB Visitor dramatic coastal scenery in the country. Guide. If you have any comments or There is solitude on even the sunniest days suggestions, please contact the AONB of summer, contrasting with thriving villages team on 01670 620306 or email with pubs and restaurants which serve [email protected] excellent food. Northumberland Coast AONB Partnership, County Hall, Morpeth, Northumberland, Explore Amidst this striking landscape is the NE61 2EF evidence of an area steeped in history, covering 9,000 years of human activity. It Information contained within this guide is is the home of Christianity in England and deemed to be correct at the time of going the capital of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria. to print (February 2019). Every effort has The combination of fertile seas for fishing, been made to ensure that information given flat land for farming and good access for is accurate. Where appropriate, you should transport and trade, all combined with check the information is still valid before strategic locations for attack and defence, making a specific journey or completing has left a fascinating legacy of historic sites. final plans. The Northumberland Coast AONB Partnership accepts no responsibility These historic sites are set within the for loss, injury or inconvenience sustained stunning landscape of wide sandy beaches as a result of information contained in backed by high sand dunes and punctuated this guide. Inclusion in the guide is not a by rocky outcrops. There are internationally recommendation of the AONB Partnership. important sea bird colonies, thousands of birds feeding on the rich mudflats in winter Advertisements are included on a and one of the largest grey seal colonies commercial basis. The AONB Partnership in Britain. The dunes and whinstone cannot therefore hold itself responsible for outcrops are a blaze of colour in spring, the accuracy, quality or suitability of goods and large areas of the AONB receive or services provided. 3 A6105 SCOTLAND A6105 Elizabethan Walls A6105 SCOTLAND SCOTLAElizabethan WaNDlls ElizabethanLowry Trail Walls Castle Parks Lowry Trail Castle Parks Lowry TrailBerwick Museum & Art Gallery Castle Parks Berwick Museum & Art Gallery B6461 i BerwickKings Museum Own & Scottish Art Gallery Borders Museum B6461 i Kings Own Scottish Borders Museum B6461 i P Kings Own Scottish Borders Museum P Berwick-upon-Tweed River Tweed Berwick-upon-TweedP River Tweed P Berwick-upon-Tweed River Tweed P Spittal Northumberland Spittal Chain Bridge Spittal Chain Bridge A1167 Chain Bridge A1167 Honey Farm Farm A1 A1 A1167 Honey Farm A1 Pot-a-Doodle-DooPot-a-Doodle-Doo Pot-a-Doodle-Doo A698A698 A698 Coast Map CocklawburnCocklawburn B6354 Cocklawburn B6354 ScremerstonScremerston B6354 Scremerston P P B6552 Cheswick Scale B6552 B6552 CheswickCheswick Scale Scale 010 01km 0 Goswick km Ancroft GoswickGoswick AncroftAncroft N N Beal Beal P P Holy Island tidaltidal causewaycauseway Holy IslandP Lindisfarne Castle Bowsden tidal causeway LindisfarneHoly IslandCastle Bowsden A1 Lindisfarne Lindisfarne Priory & Heritage Centre A1 Lindisfarne Lindisfarne Priory & HeritageLindisfarne Centre Castle Bowsden National A1 NationalLindisfarne Lindisfarne Priory & Heritage Centre B6353 Nature B6353 Nature National Lowick Reserve B6353 B6353 Reserve Nature B6353 Lowick Reserve B6552 B6353 B6552 B6552 Farne Islands Ross Farne Islands Budle Bay Middleton RossGrace Darling Farne Islands Middleton Grace Darling MuseumBudle BaBamburghy Castle Warren Mill Museum Bamburgh Castle Warren Mill Bamburgh Middleton GraceP DarlingBamburgh PMuseumP Bamburgh Castle Belford Warren Mill P B1342 B1340 B1342 B1340 BamburghSt Aidans Spindlestone P St Aidans B6349 Spindlestone B6349 Belford P B1342 Farne Islands Boat Trips Key FarneB1340 Islands BoatSt Aidans Trips Key Spindlestone B6349 P i Seahouses Northumberland Coast AONB P i Seahouses Northumberland Coast AONB to Ford B1341 Farne Islands Boat Trips to Ford B1341 Key (land/tidal area) & Etal (land/tidal area) & Etal P i Seahouses Northumberland Coast AONB to Ford B1341 Railway(land/tidal (& station) area) & Etal A1 Beadnell A1 Beadnell P P PublicRailway car park(& station) ii Tourist Information Centre A1 Beadnell Tourist attraction P P TouristPublic attraction car park Chathilll i RecommededTourist Information beach Centre Ellingham P Northumberland Coast Path Preston High Newton Tourist attraction Chathill by-the-Sea Preston Holy Island causeway floods TowerPreston P HolyRecommeded Island causeway beach floods Tower Ellingham P at high tide – check for safe Low Newton P at high tide – check for safe B1340 by-the-Sea crossingNorthumberland information Coast Path PrestonB1340 by-the-Sea High Newton crossing information North by-the-Sea Charlton Embleton Holy Island causeway floods Charlton Preston Embleton P ©Northumberland County Council TowerB6347 ©Northumberland County Council B6347 Low Newton OS Licence No. 100049048at high (2014)tide – check for safe Dunstanburgh Castle OS Licence No. 100049048 (2014) B1340 Dunstanburghby-the-Sea Castle crossing information North South Charlton DunstanEmbleton Charlton Dunstan B6347 ©Northumberland County Council Charlton Rock B1339 St Abbs Rock B1339 Craster GrantshousOS Licencee No. 100049048St (2014) Abbs Dunstanburgh Castle Grantshouse Eyemouth P i Eyemouth B6347 P i A1 B6347 A1 South Rennington Howick Dunstan Charlton Rennington Howick Duns Rock Hall &B1339 Duns Berwick-upon-Tweed GardensHall & Howick Craster St AbbsBerwick-upon-Tweed A1 Gardens Howick Grantshouse A1 Eyemouth B6341 P i B6341 A1 B6347 Northumberland B6346 Rennington Coldstream Northumberland B6346 Howick Coldstream Coast AONB River Aln Hall & Duns