Alnwick is a market town in Northumberland, England, of which it is the traditional county town. The population at the 2011 Census was 8,116. The town gets on the south financial institution of the River Aln, 32 miles (51 km) south of Berwick-upon-Tweed and the Scottish border, 5 miles (8 kilometres) inland from the North Sea at Alnmouth and also 34 miles (55 kilometres) north of Newcastle upon Tyne. The community dates to concerning advertisement 600, as well as prospered as a farming centre. Alnwick Castle was the home of one of the most powerful middle ages north baronial family, the Earls of Northumberland. It was a hosting blog post on the Great North Road in between Edinburgh as well as London, as well as latterly has actually ended up being a dorm room community for neighboring Newcastle-upon-Tyne [citation required] The community centre has actually transformed reasonably bit, but the community has actually seen some development, with a number of housing estates covering what had been field, and brand-new manufacturing facility and trading estate growths along the roadways to the south.