Travel Reviews

The town can be found in the North East of England. Proximity to A1, the East Coast main railway line and Newcastle International Airport make for excellent accessibility and rapid transport. The town has a good balance of mixed retail property and commercial services and light industry. Morpeths central Northumberland location as an ideal base from which to explore the entire county. As well as having its own range of attractions accommodation and entertainment. Morpeth is convenient for the city centre attractions of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is a desirable town in which to live with quality schools good housing and an excellent location. The administrative HQ for local government in Northumberland is found in Morpeth. The population is privately fourteen thousand. Market day is a Wednesday. The farmer market meets on the first Sunday of each month.

The River Wansbeck flows through the centre of the town and provides riverside walks linked to the attractive Carlisle Park. There is also a leisure centre and swimming pool.

Northumberland is the only county with its own musical instrument the Northumbrian pipes. This museum follows the development of bagpipes around the world using a unique sound system with personal headphones.

The clock tower in the town centre is very unusual, it has a free standing bell tower not connected to any other building, such as church. It still sounds the night curfew at eight o clock every evening. The divisions on the clock are also unusual in that there are only four divisions between the hour numbers. This was because when the clock was first built it only had one hand the hour hand.

Famous Northumbrians include Admiral Lord Collingwood. He was Horatio Nelsons second in command at the Battle of Trafalgar taking over the fleet on Nelsons death and holding the Mediterranean command thereafter.

Ghost and legends include the invasion of the Body Snatchers. St Marys Churchyard in Morpeth has a watchtower built in 1830. It was provided to guard against body snatchers who found the graveyard a particularly convenient point on the A1 to allow for a quick getaway. The bodies, needed to be fresh, were stolen to sell to the Medical Schools in Edinburgh for dissection and analysis.

A horse riding school can be found two miles North East of Morpeth. There is one qualified instructor offering group lessons to beginners and advance riders. It is an outdoor arena, which includes show jumping.

On the West coast of England you can find the town of Blackpool. It is easily accessible by road, rail or air. It is undisputed the capital of entertainment. It is the biggest and most popular seaside resort in Europe. The town Blackpool offers just about everything a holidaymaker can wish for as it is packed wall to wall with attractions, entertainment, top line shows.

Along the promenade you can find Blackpool Pleasure Beach. It has three piers on the sea front. The Sandcastle Water world and at the heart of the Golden Mile, the world famous Blackpool Tower, Sealift Centre and Louis Tussauds Waxworks.

Away from the excitement you can find Stanley Park. Stanley Park is a haven of tranquillity with its formal gardens, fountains and boating lake. Have a wild day out at Blackpool Zoo or spend an afternoon looking at the delights of the Model Village.
When the autumn nights draw in, the seafront is transformed into an electrical extravaganza as the town explodes in a six mile long riot of colour for one of the worlds most spectacular light shows Blackpool Illuminations taking the holiday season right through to November each year.

The illuminations in Blackpool began in 1879 with just eight electric arc lamps. Holiday makers tripped the lights fantastic to view what was called artificial sunshine. The basic idea remains but the shimmering light and the traditional lamp shares the limelight with fibre optics, lasers and led technology. A vital public transport system carrying more than one hundred and twenty thousand people on a busy summers day is essential. So hop on for the ride of your life, theres so much to see on a public tram.

The pleasure beach is a great day out full of fun fair rides and entertainment.

At the Sandcastle theyre having a permanent heat wave. White knuckle water chutes, swirling slides and the giant Typhoon Lagoon wave pool combine to offer a full day of family fun. This tropical haven now features the fantastic Caribbean Storm Tree house. This multi level interactive water play area includes the Whirlwind, Great White Whippier, Treetops triple family water chute and the Hydro storm which every few minutes tips six hundred gallons of water onto bathers below. In addition there are over thirty other fun interactive features including water cannons, magic jets and water blasters.

Blackpool tower offers a great day out for family entertainment. It has a famous ballroom and circles.

The Sea Life Centre is home to more than forty fascinating displays allowing close encounters with marvels of marine life. In 2005 sees some deadly additions to the display with the UKs only collection of poisonous sea snakes.

Louis Tussauds Waxworks allows you to meet the famous and the infamous in its many galleries. There are stars of stage and screen, soccer heroes in their own hall of fame and villains galore in the basement chamber of horrors where even the sign above the entrance is dripping in blood.

The town Wooler can be found in the North East of England. It is one hours drive from Newcastle and one and a half hours drive from Edinburgh. It can be located along the A697 Morpeth to Coldstream road. The closest railway is Berwick. Local buses services the rural areas, such as Wooler.

Wooler is a small attractive stone built town. Water is a natural gateway to the Cheviot Hills and the Northumberland National Park. From its main street formed by the Market Place and High Street three roads lead off through the foothills into the National Park. The main street has inns, specialist shops, working pottery and grocery stores. The shopping centre in the area has a reputation for friendly, helpful service.

The beauty of the surrounding scenery is eye opening. On the one side the fell sandstone moors across the valley below and on the other the majestic Cheviot Hills rising behind the town to form a magnificent backdrop. The town is an excellent base for a holiday. It offers a wide range of accommodation, ranging from youth hostels, campsites to local hotels.

Activities to do in Wooler include gliding, bowling, skiing, cricket, junior football club, fitness clubs, running, tennis, and walking in the cheviots. The dominant industries are sheep farming and tourism. The summer months see the towns High Street become a bustling scene of local residents and visitors. Each July the town holds its Glendale festival, with a programme of events spread over the weekend.

Within the area you can be on the magnificent Heritage coastline of North Northumberland with its spectacular scenery from Bamburgh Castle and the Holy Island of Lindisfarne to Seahouses and the spectacular Farne Islands.

Alnwick is a town with a historic castle and the famous Alnwick Gardens lie a few miles south while the Scottish Borders are within easy travelling distance from wooler on uncluttered country roads.

There is much evidence of settlements throughout the area dating back to pre Bronze Age times and most hilltops have some sort of hill fortification. The Roman period seems to have had little impact on the area. Given Woolers position almost midway between Hadrians Wall and the Antonine Wall in Scotland it would be safe to assume that the area was at least visited by Roman troops from time to time.

The twelfth century was ruled by Anglo Saxons,then Danish and eventually Norman.In the twelfth century the population is little more than eighteen hundred.