The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . Tiemouth, andthen returning to Newcastle take the road to Hexhamin order to see the grandest and most impressive Romanremains in all Britain—Hadrians Wall, built, it is generally. G. P. Henderson, Photo. ALb4WICK CASTLE. believed, by the Emperor Hadrian in 120. Hexham,itself, has a noble nine-arched bridge and a grand Abbeywith a Saxon crypt of the 7th century. Here the touristcan cross the T\Tie and go w
The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . Tiemouth, andthen returning to Newcastle take the road to Hexhamin order to see the grandest and most impressive Romanremains in all Britain—Hadrians Wall, built, it is generally. G. P. Henderson, Photo. ALb4WICK CASTLE. believed, by the Emperor Hadrian in 120. Hexham,itself, has a noble nine-arched bridge and a grand Abbeywith a Saxon crypt of the 7th century. Here the touristcan cross the T\Tie and go westwards to Housesteads,where he will see the wall winding its way across thebare uplands like a ribbon. It is an awe-inspiring relic ofRoman power. Returning to Hexham the moorland route can be takento Rothbury, a health-resort, beautifully situated on thelittle river Coquet, thirty-five miles north-west of Newcastle, 67 TWIXT HUMBER AND TWEED. and a town which yearly attracts an increasing number ofhealth-seekers, sportsmen and lovers of the ancient andpicturesque. Twelve miles from Rothbury is the town of Alnwick,with its ancient grim-looking Castle, home of the Percies,whose successors, the Dukes of Northumberland, still ownit. The exterior suggests that it is a fortress pure andsimple, but in reality it is a luxurious residence full ofpriceless art tr
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