Alnwick is a market community in Northumberland, England, of which it is the typical 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 also the Scottish border, 5 miles (8 km) inland from the North Sea at Alnmouth as well as 34 miles (55 kilometres) north of Newcastle upon Tyne. The community days to regarding advertisement 600, and also prospered as an agricultural centre. Alnwick Castle was the residence of one of the most powerful middle ages northern baronial household, the Earls of Northumberland. It was a staging post on the Great North Road in between Edinburgh and London, and more recently has actually come to be a dormitory town for neighboring Newcastle-upon-Tyne [citation needed] The town centre has actually changed relatively bit, yet the community has seen some growth, with numerous housing estates covering what had actually been field, as well as brand-new manufacturing facility and trading estate advancements along the roads to the south.