Northumberland

Northumberland is a county in North East England. The northernmost county of England, it borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham and Tyne and Wear to the south and the Scottish Borders to the north. To the east is the North Sea shoreline with a protracted-distance 103 km direction. The county town is Alnwick, no matter the truth that the county council is in Morpeth. It is one of the great place.

The county of Northumberland protected Newcastle upon Tyne till 1400, at the same time as the city became a county of itself. Northumberland improved substantially within the Tudor duration, annexing Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1482, Tynedale in 1495, Tynemouth in 1536, Redesdale round 1542 and Hexhamshire in 1572. Islandshire, Bedlingtonshire and Norhamshire were blanketed into Northumberland in 1844.

Tynemouth and different settlements in North Tyneside have been transferred to Tyne and Wear in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. Lying at the Anglo-Scottish border, Northumberland has been the website of a number of battles. The county is said for its undeveloped landscape of excessive moorland, now largely protected because the Northumberland National Park. Northumberland is the least densely populated county in England, with handiest 62 human beings steady with square kilometre.