Bamburgh

Glad I did, because it turns out Bamburgh is pretty much as amazingly castley as a castle can get:

Brian Ruckley · Now That’s What I Call a Castle … 2007

Apparently that jerk Brian Hope-Taylor broke into my boudoir and stole it, then buried it in Bamburgh Castle.

My Missing Sword! Richard Nokes 2006

Mention early on of the Whin Sill rock fault excites the mind with images of the geology's man-made consequences such as Bamburgh castle and Hadrian's wall.

The Riches Beneath Our Feet: How Mining Shaped Britain by Geoff Coyle 2010

Northumbria had more or less united Bernicia and Deira by the time of these two battles and so had become quite a large territory, extending from at least Bamburgh in the north to at least the York area in the south, a distance of around 130 miles or so.

Archive 2010-08-01 Carla 2010

Northumbria and the West Saxon kingdoms are further apart – York to Winchester is about 200 miles, Bamburgh to Winchester is over 300 miles – so we can reasonably infer that in this battle at least one army had travelled a considerable distance from their home territory.

Archive 2010-08-01 Carla 2010

Aethelferth of Bernicia, however, was nearly 200 miles from the heartland of his territory at Bebbanburgh modern Bamburgh.

Archive 2010-08-01 Carla 2010

If it was in the Makerfield area near Wigan it may have been in a border zone between Mercia and Northumbria, although it would still have been 150 miles or so from Bamburgh and something like 90 miles from Tamworth.

Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010

Northumbria had more or less united Bernicia and Deira by the time of these two battles and so had become quite a large territory, extending from at least Bamburgh in the north to at least the York area in the south, a distance of around 130 miles or so.

Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010

Either of the leading candidate locations for Nechtansmere is a long way from home for Ecgfrith of Northumbria; both are about 150 miles from Bamburgh travelling by land via Stirling.

Archive 2010-08-01 Carla 2010

Northumbria and the West Saxon kingdoms are further apart – York to Winchester is about 200 miles, Bamburgh to Winchester is over 300 miles – so we can reasonably infer that in this battle at least one army had travelled a considerable distance from their home territory.

Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010