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Alnmouth is a coastal village in Northumberland, England, situated east-south-east of Alnwick. [1]

76 relations: A1068 road, Alnmouth railway station, Alnmouth Saltmarsh and Dunes, Alnwick, Amble, Arable land, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Arthur Walker (British soldier), Beach hut, Bede, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Berwick-upon-Tweed (UK Parliament constituency), Bishop of Durham, Black Death, Boulder clay, Boulmer, British Agricultural Revolution, Bronze Age, Cheviot Hills, Cist, Civil parish, Common Era, Common land, Conservation area (United Kingdom), Cuthbert, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Ecgfrith of Northumbria, Environment Agency, Eustace de Vesci, Ford (crossing), Google Books, Grain, Guano, Headland, Hexham, Hinterland, Holland, Iron Age, John Wesley, Lesbury, Listed building, Mean High Water, Mesolithic, Militia and Volunteers of Northumberland, Mungo Park (golfer), Napoleonic Wars, National Cycle Route 1, Neolithic, Newcastle upon Tyne, ..., Northumberland, Northumberland Coast, Northumberland County Council, Ordnance Survey, Pasture, Peru, Picturesque, Plantation, Promontory, Protected area, Ptolemy, Ravenna Cosmography, River Aln, Scandinavia, Site of Special Scientific Interest, Spit (landform), Stone tool, Synod, Theodore of Tarsus, Till, Trumbert, Val McDermid, Warkworth, Northumberland, Whin Sill, William de Vesci, World War II. Expand index (26 more) »

A1068 road

The A1068 is a road in northern England that runs from Seaton Burn in North Tyneside to Alnwick in Northumberland.

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Alnmouth railway station

Alnmouth railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the village of Alnmouth and neighbouring settlements including Alnwick, in Northumberland.

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Alnmouth Saltmarsh and Dunes

Alnmouth Saltmarsh and Dunes is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Northumberland, England.

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Alnwick

Alnwick is a market town in north Northumberland, England, of which it is the traditional county town.

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Amble

Amble is a town, civil parish and seaport on the North Sea coast of Northumberland, England.

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Arable land

Arable land (from Latin arabilis, "able to be plowed") is, according to one definition, land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.

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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is an area of countryside in England, Wales or Northern Ireland which has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value.

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Arthur Walker (British soldier)

Captain Arthur Campbell Walker, F.R.G.S. was a British soldier and golf player, who taught at the School of Musketry, Fleetwood.

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Beach hut

A beach hut (also known as a beach cabin or bathing box) is a small, usually wooden and often brightly coloured, box above the high tide mark on popular bathing beaches.

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Bede

Bede (italic; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Bēda Venerābilis), was an English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St.

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Berwick-upon-Tweed

Berwick-upon-Tweed (Sooth Berwick, Bearaig a Deas) is a town in the county of Northumberland.

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Berwick-upon-Tweed (UK Parliament constituency)

Berwick-upon-Tweed is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK parliament by an elected Member of Parliament (MP).

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Bishop of Durham

The Bishop of Durham is the Anglican bishop responsible for the Diocese of Durham in the Province of York.

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Black Death

The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague, the Black Plague, or simply the Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.

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Boulder clay

Boulder clay, in geology, is a deposit of clay, often full of boulders, which is formed out of the ground moraine material of glaciers and ice-sheets wherever they are found.

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Boulmer

Boulmer is a village in Northumberland, England, on the North Sea coast east of Alnwick.

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British Agricultural Revolution

The British Agricultural Revolution, or Second Agricultural Revolution, was the unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain due to increases in labour and land productivity between the mid-17th and late 19th centuries.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

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Cheviot Hills

The Cheviot Hills (/'tʃiːvɪət/) are a range of rolling hills straddling the Anglo-Scottish border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.

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Cist

A cist (or; also kist; from κίστη or Germanic Kiste) is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Common Era

Common Era or Current Era (CE) is one of the notation systems for the world's most widely used calendar era – an alternative to the Dionysian AD and BC system.

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Common land

Common land is land owned collectively by a number of persons, or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel.

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Conservation area (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, the term conservation area nearly always applies to an area (usually urban or the core of a village) considered worthy of preservation or enhancement because of its special architectural or historic interest.

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Cuthbert

Cuthbert (c. 634 – 20 March 687) is a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Ecclesiastical History of the English People

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), written by the Venerable Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between the pre-Schism Roman Rite and Celtic Christianity.

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Ecgfrith of Northumbria

Ecgfrith (c. 645 – 20 May 685) was the King of Deira from 664 until 670, and then King of Northumbria from 670 until his death in 685.

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Environment Agency

The Environment Agency (EA) is a non-departmental public body, established in 1995 and sponsored by the United Kingdom government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), with responsibilities relating to the protection and enhancement of the environment in England (and until 2013 also Wales).

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Eustace de Vesci

Eustace de Vesci (1169–1216) was an English lord of Alnwick Castle, and a Magna Carta surety.

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Ford (crossing)

A ford is a shallow place with good footing where a river or stream may be crossed by wading, or inside a vehicle getting its wheels wet.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Grain

A grain is a small, hard, dry seed, with or without an attached hull or fruit layer, harvested for human or animal consumption.

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Guano

Guano (from Quechua wanu via Spanish) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds and bats.

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Headland

A headland (or simply head) is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water.

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Hexham

Hexham is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, south of the River Tyne, and was the administrative centre for the Tynedale district from 1974 to 2009.

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Hinterland

Hinterland is a German word meaning "the land behind" (a city, a port, or similar).

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Holland

Holland is a region and former province on the western coast of the Netherlands.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.

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John Wesley

John Wesley (2 March 1791) was an English cleric and theologian who, with his brother Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield, founded Methodism.

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Lesbury

Lesbury is a small rural village in Northumberland in the north of England.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Mean High Water

Mean High Water (MHW) is the average of all the high water heights observed over a period of several years.

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Mesolithic

In Old World archaeology, Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos "middle"; λίθος, lithos "stone") is the period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

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Militia and Volunteers of Northumberland

The Militia and Volunteers of Northumberland are those military units raised in the County independent of the regular Army.

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Mungo Park (golfer)

Mungo Park (22 October 1836 – 19 June 1904) was a member of a famous family of Scottish golfers.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom.

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National Cycle Route 1

The cycle-path is located in the United Kingdom.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.

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Northumberland

Northumberland (abbreviated Northd) is a county in North East England.

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Northumberland Coast

The Northumberland Coast is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) covering 40 miles of coastline from Berwick-Upon-Tweed to the River Coquet estuary in the Northeast of England.

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Northumberland County Council

Northumberland County Council is a unitary authority in North East England.

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Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey (OS) is a national mapping agency in the United Kingdom which covers the island of Great Britain.

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Pasture

Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing.

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Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

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Picturesque

Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc.

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Plantation

A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops.

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Promontory

A promontory is a raised mass of land that projects into a lowland or a body of water (in which case it is a peninsula).

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Protected area

Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; Claudius Ptolemaeus) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.

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Ravenna Cosmography

The Ravenna Cosmography (Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia, "The Cosmography of the Unknown Ravennese") is a list of place-names covering the world from India to Ireland, compiled by an anonymous cleric in Ravenna around 700.

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River Aln

The River Aln runs through the county of Northumberland in England.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.

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Site of Special Scientific Interest

A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.

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Spit (landform)

A spit or sandspit is a deposition bar or beach landform off coasts or lake shores.

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Stone tool

A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone.

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Synod

A synod is a council of a church, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application.

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Theodore of Tarsus

Theodore of Tarsus (602 – 19 September 690.) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 668 to 690, best known for his reform of the English Church and establishment of a school in Canterbury.

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Till

Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is diagnostic of till. Glacial till with tufts of grass Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment.

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Trumbert

Trumbert (or Tunberht or Tunbeorht) was a monk of Jarrow, a disciple of Chad and later Bishop of Hexham.

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Val McDermid

Val McDermid, (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels featuring Dr. Tony Hill.

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Warkworth, Northumberland

Warkworth is a village in Northumberland, England.

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Whin Sill

The Whin Sill or Great Whin Sill is a tabular layer of the igneous rock dolerite in County Durham and Northumberland in the northeast of England.

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William de Vesci

William de Vesci (c.1125–1184) was an Anglo-Norman feudal lord and Sheriff.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alnmouth

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