Human remains discovered on Lindisfarne in 2022 have been identified as disturbed burials that may have belonged to a long-lost early medieval chapel and cemetery.
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We're working with local partners to provide daytime and residential experiences in the Northumberland Coast National Landscape for nearly 800 children.
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Elanor has recently joined the team and is responsible for delivering some access and interpretation projects.
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A summer boat trip to Coquet Island was the ideal way to thank our Conservation Team volunteers, with charity patron Ann Cleeves joining us too.
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Find out the final number of wildlife species recorded at our recent Bioblitz.
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We're pleased to share the itinerary for our Bioblitz at Warkworth Beach picnic site on 21-22 June.
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After the pits were found at Foxton Bay earlier in the year, a mini excavation was undertaken.
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The Conservation Team has announced record volunteer numbers.
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The Northumberland Coast National Landscape is now hiring a Project Officer.
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A new art exhibition in Amble explores climate change and the landscape.
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We spent a day at Inner Farne with the National Trust, creating new nesting areas for Arctic terns.
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Helen Wilson-Beevers has just joined the Northumberland Coast National Landscape team.
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A new guidebook for the Northumberland Coast Path was launched today (1st March 2024) at the Drift Café near the start of the route at Cresswell.
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England’s Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and Historic England have launched a joint statement outlining their ambition and intent to work together to conserve and enhance the historic and cultural environment of England’s 34 AONB.
The launch took place yesterday at Bamburgh Castle in the Northumberland Coast AONB.
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The Barn Owl – an enigmatic bird of the English countryside. The white owl, almost ghostly, silently quartering the dunes at dusk is something to behold.
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Our Accessing Aidan Project won the coveted Bowland Award at the National Association for Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty annual conference in Lancaster last month
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Mark Furnell, our volunteer coordinator was tasked with organising a team work day in the fresh air of the AONB. There were two criteria - good views and a fire.
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Our Annual Forum is one of the highlights in the Partnership’s calendar. This year's theme is Tranquillity.
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Having the courage to try something new and take ourselves out of our comfort zone is daunting, but that's exactly what Janet Scott did when she joined us on our guided walk series four years ago. It was an experience that changed her life. Here, she tells us her story ...
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The Northumberland Coast AONB Partnership have recently welcomed Mark Furnell to their staff team as the Volunteer and Access Officer.
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The Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership has appointed a new chairman, Patrick Norris, to champion Northumberland’s protected coastal landscape.
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Farmers and land managers in England’s National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) will be given grants to make improvements to the natural environment, cultural heritage and public access.
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Are you the one to deliver innovative nature recovery projects in an outstanding landscape?
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As restrictions are lifted and with accommodation and activities starting to book up, Visit Northumberland are urging all businesses in the tourism sector to get in touch to find out how they can benefit from 12 months of additional support and promotion, for FREE.
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The new Code allows people of all ages and backgrounds to enjoy the health and wellbeing benefits that nature offers, while giving it the respect it deserves.
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Did you know every planning application in the AONB is looked at for its impact on the designated landscape? Sarah Winlow, our Historic and Built Environment Officer, explains more.
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This spring and summer, the Natural History Society of Northumbria (NHSN) is encouraging the North East to take part in the North East Bee Hunt and put bees on the region’s map.
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Northumberland Tourism have partnered with the National Coastal Tourism Academy (NCTA) to undertake a regular business survey of coastal businesses. The findings will be used by them to better understand how businesses along the Northumberland coast are faring.
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Following the new national lockdown in England announced on Monday 4th January 2021, there are some changes to the government guidelines which are relevant to anyone wishing to visit Northumberland Coast AONB at this time.
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We're delighted to be able to share a recording of our our Virtual Annual Forum with you.
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The Northumberland Coast AONB Annual Forum returns - virtually - on Thursday 8th October 2020, 4pm-5.30pm via Zoom.
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Our Communications and Funding Officer, Catherine Gray, ran the virtual Great North Run along a stretch of the Northumberland Coast AONB, taking in parts of the Northumberland Coast Path.
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Coast Care and Northumberland Coast AONB Partnership have recently funded two projects through their Environmental Projects Fund. The Fund was set up three years ago to enable local community volunteers to make a contribution to their village or parish
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The Accessing Aidan project, with its newly opened crypt of St Aidan’s Church in Bamburgh, won the ‘Hidden Gem’ category at the prestigious awards, which celebrate the best historic houses, gardens, museums and sites around the UK.
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A new Management Plan for the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) has been adopted by Northumberland County Council.
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Access restrictions are currently in place in Beadnell Bay to protect breeding shorebirds.
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The Northumberland Coast AONB Partnership is urging people to continue to take care and respect local communities when spending time outdoors, as COVID-19 restrictions begin to change.
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The Northumberland Coast AONB Partnership are urging people to take extra care and respect local communities following changes to the guidance on taking exercise and travel announced by the Government on Monday.
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April 21st is World Curlew Day. Winter is over and we’re well into spring on the Northumberland coast but we still have a few over-wintering curlew on our shores.
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This week (19th - 26th April) is International Dark Skies week - a week long celebration of the night sky. This year, people around the world are being encouraged to come together online to celebrate the night and engage with authors, creators, scientists, and educators
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Today, we would normally have been at Northumberland Tourism Fair in Alnwick launching our Visitor Guide and meeting lots of lovely people. Unfortunately, like many other events, it had to be cancelled. Here's how you can get your copy.
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Coast Care have a fantastic opportunity for a recent graduate or someone working towards a qualification to gain valuable experience in the countryside management/ecology sector, working on the beautiful Northumberland Coast.
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Consultation has opened on an important plan that will help to shape the future of the Northumberland coast.
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A new free walking guide has just been published by Peregrini Lindisfarne and is available to download. This guide looks at the industrial past of Cocklawburn, a stunning beach and grass duneland at the northern end of the Northumberland Coast AONB.
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The Eider Aware North East project has been created to celebrate the importance of the eider populations on our coast and to promote actions to help us conserve the species.
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Over the last two years, more than 1,200 Coast Care volunteers have given over 20,000 hours of their time to help look after our beautiful coastline. To mark their milestone successes, volunteers celebrated with a fish and chip lunch with Coast Care staff and partners.
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Our Annual Forum, which was held last Friday, is the main event in our calendar, bringing together valued local advocates, businesses, AONB Partnership members and ambassadors, all in support of our AONB. It's a chance to give the public an opportunity to learn in detail what we are doing and most importantly, to tell us their views.
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I’m delighted to be joining the AONB Partnership team as Historic and Built Environment Officer. It is a return to working in the Northumberland Coast AONB for me, at least to the northern part of the AONB, following on from a heritage and outreach role for the Peregrini Lindisfarne Landscape Partnership in 2016-2017. I’m looking forward to renewing old contacts and making new ones over the next three years whilst Jessica is on secondment to the Accessing Aidan project.
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Landscapes for Life Week started this week. It is the AONB Family's week (and a bit) long programme of events to help people reconnect with nature by enjoying and being inspired by the UK's Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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Registration is now open for the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership’s 2019 Annual Forum. It is one of the highlights of their calendar and this year will be held at the Crossman Hall, Holy Island on Friday 18th October, 10am - 3pm.
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The Northumberland Coast AONB season of Geodiversity walks reaches its finale for this year with a walk on Sunday September 1st starting at 10am. These walks are led by local geologist Dr Ian Kille and give an opportunity to explore the fascinating stories that the rocks exposed on the coastline tell of our deep past as well as how they have shaped the area’s history.
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In celebration of St Aidan's feast day, the Bamburgh Bones team will host two open days of the crypt: Thursday 29th and Saturday 31st August, 11am - 2pm. Both events are free.
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The Northumberland Coast AONB season of Geodiversity walks continues with a walk on Thursday August 8th starting at 2pm entitled “Storm and Stress”. These walks are led by local geologist Dr Ian Kille and give an opportunity to explore the fascinating stories that the rocks exposed on the coastline tell of our deep past as well as how they have shaped the area’s history.
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I recently took time out from my busy schedule to attend our National AONB Conference - Landscapes for Life 2019 in Colchester.
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Mudlarks, a local beach school provider, is on the shortlist to win a share of Persimmon Homes’ Building Futures £1million pot supporting under-18s nationwide - but first they need online votes to win.
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As photographers, we need to keep things in perspective. Social media can be a great place if it’s used responsibly, but too often it isn’t. Photographer Ian Glendinning explores respectful photography.
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The Northumberland Coast AONB season of Geodiversity walks continues with a walk on Wednesday July 17th starting at 10:00 entitled “Coal Fired”. These walks are led by local geologist Dr Ian Kille and give an opportunity to explore the fascinating stories that the rocks exposed on the coastline tell of our deep past as well as how they have shaped the area’s history.
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The search to find this year’s worthy recipient(s) of the Bowland Award has advanced a step with six showcases planned for consideration by delegates at the Landscapes for Life Conference 2019 next week.
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Yesterday, we were lucky enough to have the Coast Care volunteers come to help clean the crypt at St Aidan's Church as part of the Bamburgh Bones project. Could you spare some time to help out too?
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The Northumberland Coast AONB season of Geodiversity walks continues this year with the second walk - “Lindisfarne, the ley of a liminal landscape” - on Wednesday 19th June from 10am.
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Coast Care have a fantastic opportunity for a recent graduate or someone working towards a qualification to gain valuable experience in the countryside and heritage sector, working as an events ranger on the beautiful Northumberland Coast.
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When we planned Coast Care, we recognised that some of our volunteers would be graduates from natural sciences, countryside management or historic/archaeological courses looking to gain experience and skills. We decided to build three ‘graduate traineeships’ into the project to help graduates into work - Ellie Coleman is one of our trainees.
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The Inn Collection Group is tapping into a national water campaign that aims to slash the millions of plastic bottles ending up in the world’s oceans each year. The pub company has pledged its support of Refill by registering each of its inns as refill stations where people can replenish their water bottles free of charge instead of buying new ones.
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The season of Geodiversity walks in the Northumberland Coast AONB for this year start this coming will start on Saturday May 25th
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Julie Gregory is one of Northumberland’s most exciting emerging painters. Inspired by her combined love of the Northumberland coast and art, she has started offering residential art holidays based on her family’s working farm, Springhill Farm Accommodation near Seahouses.
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A partnership of conservation organisations is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to protect and monitor vulnerable birds nesting along the coast this summer. These include the endangered little terns, arctic terns and ringed plovers, which are collectively known as shorebirds.
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We’ve launched a new campaign to get businesses on the coast to sign up to the Refill scheme which will tell visitors were they can get their water bottles refilled.
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We've followed Northumbrian artist, Sarah O'Dowd on Instagram for a little while now. We asked her if she'd like to write a blog post to tell us about her experiences of the Northumberland Coast. She sent us this fantastic piece, complete with some of her atmospheric paintings.
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‘Accessing Aidan’, a remarkable partnership project to develop the crypt of St. Aidan's Church, Bamburgh into a beautiful community and interpretation space, has been awarded a grant of £355,600 by the National Lottery.
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Our year-long survey of beach litter on the Northumberland Coast was completed in September and we can now reveal the results in a report published today.
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This year's winning photograph for the front cover of the 2019 Visitor Guide was taken by Embleton photographer, Andy Craig.
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Back in 2013, we began working nationally and regionally with nine other partner organisations on a project to identify the reasons for the decline in little tern populations. The successes of this project were brought together at a conference in Norwich last week.
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Historic England, the government adviser on the Historic Environment, have launched their annual ‘Heritage at Risk’ register. The register gives an annual snapshot of England’s historic places.
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Lowick Heritage Group received a grant from our Sustainable Development Fund for a geophysical survey to establish the origins of Lowick (known as the farm on the low in Anglo Saxon times).
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The Reading Rooms on Holy Island were officially reopened by Jane Crossman last week following a £55,000 makeover as part of our Heritage Lottery Funded Peregrini Lindisfarne Landscape Partnership Scheme.
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The Northumberland Coast AONB Partnership hosted a Celebration Concert at Ellingham Hall last Thursday to bring to a close a year of events to mark their diamond anniversary. It was described as a “powerful essence of the Northumberland coast's talents, beauty, wildness and power to heal and inspire folk who live there and visit”.
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Lily Tibbitts was the winner of the 12-16 years category. Lily is 14 years old and a pupil at James Calvert Spence College in Amble. Many people in the audience were quite emotional listening to her short story, which she read out so perfectly at our Celebration concert last Thursday.
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Alex Lienard was the runner up of the 7-11 years category. He is 9 year old pupil and a pupil at Darras Hall First School. His short story is called "A Switch in time". Alex was asked if he would like to read out his story at our Celebration Concert at Ellingham Hall last week. He did a fantastic job and we were all caught up in the adventures of Jack and Toby ...
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The Runner Up of the 12-16 years category was Antonia Johnson. Antonia is 14 years old and a pupil at the Duchess Community High School in Alnwick. Antonia confidently read her poem, Warkworth Sands, at our Celebration Concert at Ellingham Hall last Thursday.
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Scarlett Hodgson was the winner of the 7-11 years category. Scarlett is 10 years old and a pupil at Ralph Butterfield School in York. She made the journey north to be at our Celebration Concert at Ellingham Hall last Thursday. She confidently read her beautiful poem to a captive audience.
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The winner of the Adult category was Ali Millar from Kelso in the Scottish Borders Ali travelled down to Northumberland with her family to be at our prize giving and celebration concert on Thursday. The mesmerising tone of her prose piece came across well when she read it out to the audience.
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Julie Evans was the Runner Up of the Adults Category. Julie is from Guildford and unfortunately unable to come up to our Celebration Concert and prize-giving last Thursday. Her story - The Opening and Closing of a Gill - was read by Lucy Miller Trotter, a sixth form student at the Duchess Community High School.
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Walkers on the Northumberland coast are being asked to become voluntary wardens to help maintain their favourite sections of the Northumberland Coast Path and other walking routes.
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Registration is now open for the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership’s 2018 Celebration Concert and Annual Forum on Thursday 11 October 2018 at Ellingham Hall.
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A year-long survey of litter on beaches within the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) will be completed by volunteers taking part in this year’s Great British Beach Clean.
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The Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) are once again holding a competition this summer to find an image for the cover of their 2019 Visitor Guide.
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Pirri Pirri or to give it it’s scientific name Acaena novae-zelandiae is a prickly problem on the Northumberland coast.
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Staff from the Defra group of agencies - Natural England, Environment Agency and Forestry Commission - joined us yesterday to remove Pirri Pirri, a problematic plant, from the dunes at Bamburgh.
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We’ve joined forced with Arriva North East to create a new Northumberland Coast and Castles sightseeing tour on their X18 bus.
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There is a requirement to review the Northumberland Coast AONB Management Plan every five years, and so we need to have a new plan in place by April 2019. Work on the review has commenced, and we are very keen to ensure that there are opportunities for local communities, businesses, land managers and others with an interest in the management of the AONB to contribute to this.
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There are a couple of things that are predictable in archaeology - dreadful weather and the most remarkable finds turning up in the last couple of days or hours of the excavation.
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Do you love writing? Are you a budding poet? Then we have a competition just for you. Write a short story or poem about the Northumberland Coast and you could win a cash prize, as part of the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership 60th anniversary celebrations.
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Thanks to an extension grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund we’ve been able to return to the Holy Island Heugh to continue with another season of the Peregrini Lindisfarne Community Archaeology Project.
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You’re spoilt for choice if you’re looking for a book on Holy Island. A quick trawl of the internet brings up books on its history, religious significance and wildlife. However, there doesn’t seem to be a catch-all book - one that binds everything together.
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The Watson-Armstrong family farm in the shadow of Bamburgh Castle. Will Watson-Armstrong tells us about their most photographed field - The Moor Field - and how it is benefiting wildlife.
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Once again we've produced itinerary planners to help get visitors out of their cars
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After a rather long winter, it finally looks like fine weather is here and as the underwater visibility settles the opportunities to witness some of this outstanding natural beauty increase. Dr Ben Burville has been fortunate to have spent hundreds of hours underwater with seals, birds and dolphin off the Northumberland coast.
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The Northumberland Little Tern Project is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to protect vulnerable birds nesting along the coast this summer. These include the endangered little terns, arctic terns and ringed plovers, which are collectively known as shorebirds.
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A new bus service will now provide a daily connection between Holy Island and the mainland. As well as running the new Lindisfarne Hopper service from Haggerston Castle to Holy Island, Berwick firm Woody’s Taxis will also operate the popular Castle Shuttle between the Island’s main car park and Lindisfarne Castle
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When walking along the coast, we generally pay no attention to the land beneath our feet. A new book, “Berwickshire Coast Rocks!” invites us to visit the alien landscape which has been lying quietly underfoot for millions of years and is just waiting for us to investigate during our walks
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The Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership and the Coast Care Initiative are launching a £5,000 Community Environmental Projects Fund, which will be available from April.
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Thousands of people walk the Pilgrims Way across the sands to Holy Island every year. Now a new seat which has been designed by pupils of Lowick & Holy Island Church of England First Schools, will provide a resting place for walkers at the end of their trek.
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March 2018 marks the 60th anniversary of the designation of the North Northumberland Coast as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Throughout the year the Northumberland Coast AONB Partnership will be organising a number of events so everyone can join in to discover more about our beautiful coast and learn how to look after it for future generations
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The line of poles marking the walking route to Holy Island have been in place for decades, but recently some of them had gone missing or become loose. As part of the Peregrini Lindisfarne Landscape Partnership Scheme, the missing poles have been replaced.
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Northumberland Coast AONB has teamed up with Mudlarks Beach Schools, in an innovative Sustainable Development Fund pilot project to help support the provision of Beach Schools to local children.
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Seahouses Development Trust is holding an inclusive event aimed at both businesses and individuals living or working between Alnwick and Berwick-upon-Tweed.
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Seahouses Development Trust is holding an inclusive event aimed at both businesses and individuals living or working between Alnwick and Berwick-upon-Tweed.
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The final volunteer conference for the Peregrini Lindisfarne Landscape Partnership Scheme has just been and my time managing the Community Geology Project comes towards its end. Time to ask questions - what has this scheme achieved? what is its relevance, if any, to tourism businesses? where does it lead to?
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Litter on the beach is a growing problem across the globe but is the problem getting worse here in Northumberland? Our year-long litter-surveying project aims to find out how big a problem beach litter is and where it all comes from and we need some volunteers to help us.
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Once again, the Northumberland Coast AONB Partnership will be producing a visitor guide to the Northumberland Coast.
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A photo of Holy Island Causeway by a self-taught local photographer has been chosen as the front cover image for next year’s Northumberland Coast Visitor Guide.
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Work is well underway on the England Coast Path - a new National Trail around all of England’s coast. Natural England expects to complete work on the England Coast Path in 2020.
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Whilst tramlining a field to help drainage a farmer dislodged the large cap stone of a Bronze Age Burial cist.
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What happens at Bamburgh Castle once all the visitors have gone home? Director Chris Calvert tells us what the team will be doing over the winter months to improve the visitor experience in 2018
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The first Howick International Film Festival takes place from 13-15th October.
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Internationally important seabird colonies on the Northumberland coast and on the Farne Islands and Coquet Island have received extra protection through the designation of the Northumberland Marine Special Protection Area (SPA).
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Registration is now open for the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership’s 2017 Annual Forum on Friday 29th September at Bamburgh Pavilion.
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Coast Care, the new initiative to support volunteers to help look after the beautiful Northumberland coastline is holding a couple of drop-in sessions for anyone who is interested in learning more about the scheme
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We're hosting six guided walks over the summer, each in the company of the path's originator, Iain Robson. We've been writing a diary of the walks, which are being published in the Northumberland Gazette. This is the sixth and final entry: Fenwick to Berwick upon Tweed
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We're hosting six guided walks over the summer, each in the company of the path's originator, Iain Robson. We've been writing a diary of the walks, which are being published in the Northumberland Gazette. This is the fifth entry: Belford to Fenwick
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A new initiative has been launched in Northumberland to stop residents and visitors falling foul of their most loyal friends.
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We're hosting six guided walks over the summer, each in the company of the path's originator, Iain Robson. We've been writing a diary of the walks, which are being published in the Northumberland Gazette. This is the fourth entry: Seahouses to Belford
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We're hosting six guided walks over the summer, each in the company of the path's originator, Iain Robson. We've been writing a diary of the walks, which are being published in the Northumberland Gazette. This is the third entry: Craster to Seahouses
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We're hosting six guided walks over the summer, each in the company of the path's originator, Iain Robson. We've been writing a diary of the walks, which are being published in the Northumberland Gazette. This is the second entry: Warkworth to Craster
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The remote and beautiful Holy Island of Lindisfarne holds a special place in history. Known as the ‘Cradle of Christianity’ in the North East, it was here that St Aidan established a monastery in AD635 and set out to convert the pagan Northumbrians. The monastery developed into an international centre of learning and craftsmanship and it was during this Golden Age of Northumbria that exquisite items such as the Lindisfarne Gospels were produced. All this came to a crashing end with the arrival of the Vikings in the late 8th Century. Archaeologists working for the National Lottery funded Peregrini Lindisfarne Community Archaeology project have made exciting new discoveries which may well have turned a long held belief about Holy Island on its head.
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We're hosting six guided walks over the summer, each in the company of the path's originator, Iain Robson. We've been writing a diary of the walks, which are being published in the Northumberland Gazette. This is the first entry: Cresswell to Warkworth
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We've launched our photographic competition this week to find the front cover of our 2018 Visitor Guide. Could you take the winning image?
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A collection of new journey planners are now available to make bus travel easier for visitors to the north Northumberland Coast. The planners have been designed to give visitors all of the information they need to easily explore the area without having to use their car.
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Why not come and join us when we walk the Northumberland Coast Path this summer?
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Northumberland Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (NIFCA) is responsible for monitoring fishing activity from the River Tyne to the English/ Scottish Border out to 6 nautical miles and up to the normal tidal limit (NTL) of estuaries. NIFCA also have a responsibility to ensure fishing activities do not have a significant impact on Marine Protected Areas within the NIFCA district.
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Coast Care, our new initiative that will recruit and train an army of volunteers to look after the North Northumberland Coastal area, is now looking to appoint a full time project coordinator.
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We have once more teamed-up with Arriva North East to offer people working in tourism a free bus journey with a difference next month. As part of our campaign to get more people to take more car-free days when they visit the coast we are providing 'on-the-bus' training for anyone working in hospitality or tourism.
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When Margaret Davison and her 11 year-old grandson, Matthew, visited the beach at Beadnell, they were appalled at the amount of litter they found and the effects it could have. Matthew has written about what they did to help.
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This year’s Northumberland Coast AONB Visitor Guide will be hot off the press in time for the North Tourism Fair at Willowburn Sports and Leisure Centre in Alnwick on Tuesday 21st March.
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One of the projects helped by our Sustainable Development Fund is Mandell’s Coffee Pot. In a letter displayed in the Parish Rooms at Embleton, Janet Applegarth, the project team leader, explains how the project has grown from its small beginnings …
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Isla Morton, a pupil at Belford Middle School, tells us about her beach clean at Bamburgh
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Isla Morton, a pupil at Belford Middle School, tells us about her beach clean at Bamburgh
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Coast Care, an initiative that will recruit and train an army of volunteers to look after the North Northumberland Coastal area, has been awarded a grant of £522,600 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
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Ian Hall from Wilds of Wanney tells us about the latest edition of The Cheviot
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A review of The Birds of Holy Island & Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve by Ian Kerr
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The Berwick Conservation Area Advisory Group is reflecting on its sixth successful autumn conference; held across two days with the Historic Town's Forum on the 19th and 20th October.
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A photo taken by a visitor to the Farne Islands has been chosen as the front cover image for next year’s Northumberland Coast Visitor Guide.
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Claire Thorburn, director of Bamburgh-based Impact PR & Marketing, swam from the Farne Islands to the mainland in the summer in aid of charity. Why did she do it? Read on to find out more.
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Registration is now open for the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership's 2016 Annual Forum
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Walkers completing the 62 mile Northumberland Coast Path can now celebrate with a free beer 'on the house' courtesy of the Curfew Micropub in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
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Longstone Lighthouse has a new visitor area. The AONB team have been out to the Farne Islands to take a look.
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The Northumberland Coast Path, a 62 mile continuous coastal footpath from Cresswell to Berwick-upon-Tweed has been officially open for ten years.
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A new bird watching guide for the Northumberland coast has been officially unveiled
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Farmers' Markets are the best place to purchase local seasonal food and the following is my guide to the best of what is on offer over the summer around the Northumberland coast.
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Years of research by Bamburgh Research Project and Durham University in partnership with Bamburgh Castle Estate has resulted in an unrivalled wealth of information and data about our Anglo-Saxon ancestors who were living in Bamburgh 1,400 years ago. Over 110 individual skeletons were excavated (1998-2007) from the sand dunes to the south of Bamburgh Castle by Bamburgh Research Project and for the last couple of years I’ve been working with Bamburgh Heritage Trust to secure the final resting place of these skeletons in the second crypt of St. Aidan’s Church, Bamburgh. The culmination of all our hard work was the final committal ceremony held on Friday 24th June.
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We are developing an exciting new project to support volunteers of all ages to help us care for the beautiful landscape of the Northumberland coast and we need your help.
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The Campaign to Protect Rural England has recently revealed the results of a project to map Britain's dark skies.
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In 1958, the royal yacht ‘Britannia’ anchored off the north Northumberland coast so that the Queen and Prince Phillip could visit Holy Island.
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Andrew and Margaret Watchorn are holding another series of their popular concerts this summer to raise awareness of the traditional music of north Northumberland.
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Coquet Island’s rare breeding roseate terns and their comical puffin friends are set to become stars with their own live camera feed, streamed worldwide on the internet.
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Hi, my name is Archie. I really like canoeing on the River Coquet and I wanted to do a litter pick because I saw that rubbish had been washing down the river.
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Iain Robson will lead a series of guided walks along the Northumberland Coast Path this summer to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the official opening of the path.
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The North Northumberland Tourism Association (NNTA) has released a series of short films celebrating the beauty of the wildlife and landscapes of north Northumberland. The project has been supported by our Sustainable Development Fund.
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Little terns are winging their way back to the Northumberland coast right now and preparations for their imminent arrival are in full swing.
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The Lindisfarne Inn at Beal is wheeling out a new project to welcome cyclists which has been funded by the AONB Sustainable Development Fund
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Coltsfoot is bringing a cheery splash of colour to our dune grasslands at this time of year.
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The Drift Café on Druridge Bay has become the first business on the Northumberland Coast Path to become a 'Welcome Port' for the path's new Passport scheme.
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I would like to tell you about my favourite local foods from Northumbrian Farmers' Markets due into season in the next three months. This food reflects the weather, the countryside in which it is produced and it changes with the seasons.
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We officially launched the 2016/17 Visitor Guide at Alnwick Tourism Fair on Wednesday 16th March.
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Galliheugh Bank is a small area of roadside verge that is part of the Bamburgh Coast and Hills Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Northumberland County Council with assistance from the AONB Partnership have recently carried out works to bring the site back into favourable condition.
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As part of my university placement year with the Northumberland Coast AONB Partnership, I have written a management plan for Alnmouth Village Pond Woodland for the Burgage Holders which, in brief, includes coppicing the woodland, creating a small wildflower meadow and opening up a couple of viewpoints over the pond. This was the first project I was assigned with after starting my placement at the end of September 2015 and, what seemed like a daunting task at first, has developed into an exciting prospect and an education for me and hopefully for the people of Alnmouth too.
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It's World Book Day today which got us thinking ...
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Guest blogger Stewart Sexton talks about a visit to 'Ripples from the House on the Shore'
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In this, one of the centenary years of WW1, various communities along the coast have been looking at how the Great War impacted on their settlements
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Did you know that our Sustainable Development Fund has been running for ten years? It provides funding for projects that bring social, environmental and economic benefits to the AONB.
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The penny men have been back at the Stag Rocks in Bamburgh for a couple of months now.
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