Introducing Berwick-upon-tweed
This salt-crusted fortress town is England’s northernmost city and the holder of two unique honours: it is the most fought-over settlement in European history (between 1174 and 1482 it changed hands 14 times between the Scots and the English) and its football team, Berwick Rangers, are the only English team to play in the Scottish League – albeit at the low-level 3rd division in 2006–7.
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Although it has been firmly English since the 15th century, it retains its own peculiar identity, as though the vagaries of its seesaw history have forced it to look inwards and not trust anyone but its own – you need only walk its massive ramparts, built during Elizabethan times and still virtually complete, to understand the town’s insularity.
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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RE: Ancient towers in Scotland
by planetary 13 September 2011
Not exactly on topic, but there are ramparts surrounding the town of Berwick Upon Tweed, the last town on the east coast of England before…
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RE: Non-government health warning
by Standanista 11 August 2011
#12. +No Scottish cities are involved. Is there a reason for that?+ Apart from GPO telegrams which are sent by morse from both Edinburgh…
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RE: London to Scotland
by NMMackenzie 25 June 2011
I infer from your post that you intend to stop off here & there, on way, rather than drive straight up. Not a journey I've ever done,…
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