Northumberland

Northumberland is the most northerly ceremonial county of England, lies on the border of Scotland, from which it is separated by the Cheviots and the Tweed. Its eastern shore, off which lie the Farne Islands, Lindisfarne, and Coquet Isle, North of Durham, fronts the North Sea. Is fifth in size of the English counties. In the North the Cheviot slopes form excellent pasturage, but the Pennine Range towards the West presents dreary and less valuable moorland. On the West are arable lowlands. Tweed, Tyne, Till, Alne, Wansbeck, are the chief rivers. Its great coal-field in the South East is the most celebrated in the world, and is the county's greatest source of wealth, and included upwards of 100 collieries by the beginning of the 20th century. Newcastle, Alnwick (county town), Hexham, and North Shields are the principal towns. Within its borders were fought the battles of Otterburn, Homildon Hill, and Flodden.

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Northumbria, Northwich, Norwich, Norwood, Nostradamus, Not Evaluated