Alnwick
Alnwick is a market community in Northumberland, England, of which it is the conventional county town. The population at the 2011 Census was 8,116. The town gets on the south bank of the River Aln, 32 miles (51 kilometres) south of Berwick-upon-Tweed and the Scottish boundary, 5 miles (8 kilometres) inland from the North Sea at Alnmouth and 34 miles (55 km) north of Newcastle upon Tyne. The town dates to concerning advertisement 600, and flourished as an agricultural centre. Alnwick Castle was the residence of one of the most powerful medieval northern baronial family members, the Earls of Northumberland. It was a staging post on the Great North Road in between Edinburgh as well as London, as well as latterly has ended up being a dorm room community for nearby Newcastle-upon-Tyne [citation needed] The town centre has transformed fairly little, however the town has seen some development, with numerous housing estates covering what had been pasture, and new manufacturing facility and also trading estate developments along the roads to the south.
