Winter scene of the West Gate (Marmion's Arch) of Norham Castle stronghold of the Bishops of Durham on the Anglo Scottish Border
Day set on Norham’s castled steep, And Tweed’s fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot’s mountains lone: The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates, where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seem’d forms of giant height: Their armour, as it caught the rays, Flash’d back again the western blaze, In lines of dazzling light. Marmion, 1806, Sir Walter Scott Framed through the West Gate, known locally as Marmion's Arch the Keep of Norham Castle is bathed in late afternoon winter sunshine. Once the stronghold of the Bishops of Durham on the Scottish Border and once the most dangerous place in England Amongst it's famous visitors have been King Edward the first John Knox the Scottish reformer who married the Captain of the castles daughter, Beatrix Potter who described it as a 'dirty little town' Mons Meg which saw action here in 1497 King James IV of Scotland Robert the Bruce JMW Turner who attributed much of his success to Norham and it's Castle. Norham is on The Pennine Cycleway, also known as the 'spine of England' route, which runs from Derby to Berwick-upon-Tweed. Famous for it's part in the Scottish Wars of Independence it lost much of it's importance as a stronghold when it fell to James IV of Scotland just before the Battle of Flodden in 1513
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Location: Norham Castle, Berwick-upon-Tweed, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Jim Gibson / Alamy / Afripics
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