Northumberland

The Grove is a triangular park in the centre of Bamburgh in the north of Northumberland. It appears that the area was used as the village quarry up until the late 1700s when it was closed for safety reasons and infilled. The Oak trees dominating the park certainly look less than 200 years old. While not looking at its best in early spring, the leafless trees do highlight the noisy colony of Rooks nesting in the crowns of the Oaks and it is wonderful spending a few minutes here listening and watching their comings and goings. PIP #1: A Fritillary flower growing in the Grove. PIP #2: Another view of the Grove showing its triangular shape.

End of the line! This impressive landscape occurred in December 2015 during a very high flood of the River Tyne. As a side effect, a popular hiking trail was destroyed and has remained unreplaced since then. Unfortunately there were no signs warning of this at the start of the trail, making for an unfortunately abbreviated walk along the very scenic Tyne valley.

Looking north from Church Point near Newbiggin towards Lynemouth power station and the south Northumberland coast. Formerly powered by coal, Lynemouth was converted to a biomass burning power station in 2018.

Appearing almost endlessly long in the fog, the Berwick bridge links the town of Berwick with Tweedmouth across the River Tweed. Built between 1610 and 1624, it is now open only to pedestrian traffic, with cars now using the Royal Bridge just visible in the background.

Sadly not one of the famous Egyptian pyramids, this is the daytime marker to aid maritime navigation built in 1810 at the northeastern tip of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. PIP #1: A side view of the marker which makes for a nice excusion from the main village on the island.