Northumberland Coast National Landscape

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Forty miles of the country’s most sublime coastline, protected as a pristine package of wondrous wildlife and history.

Not every stretch of seaside is pretty and pristine enough to get National Landscape status, but the Northumberland Coast National Landscape, spanning 40-odd miles of sandy coastline in England’s far northeast between Berwick-on-Tweed and the Coquet Estuary at Warkworth, is such a stretch. Sweeping golden sand flats and sandy beaches combine here with craggy headlands, seemingly endless dunes secreting a wealth of rare wildlife and otherwordly offshore islands. The coastline is as entrancing today as it has been to people throughout time: 7,000 years of human activity awaits your discovery, from the cradle of Christianity in England at Lindisfarne through Saxon monasteries, Norman strongholds and splendid Victorian mansions, to the modern museums that bring all this history to life.