Everything about Norham totally explained
Norham is a
village in
Northumberland,
England, just south of the
River Tweed and the border with
Scotland.
It is the site of the
12th century Norham Castle, and was for many years the centre for the
Norhamshire exclave of
County Durham. It was transferred to Northumberland in
1844.
It was on the Tweed here that
Edward I of England met the Scots nobility in 1292 to decide on the future king of Scotland.
Sir Walter Scott gained fame as a poet, particularly with
Marmion set around the
Battle of Flodden in 1513. It begins:
Day set on Norham's castled steep,/
And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep,/
And Cheviot's mountains lone:/
The battled towers, the donjon keep,/
The loophole grates where captives weep,/
The flanking walls that round it sweep,/
In yellow lustre shone. /
The
19th century Ladykirk and Norham Bridge is a late stone
road bridge that connects the village with
Ladykirk in the
Scottish Borders.
J.M.W. Turner always tipped his hat to Norham Castle, as it was the place which brought him fame as an artist. The picture of the castle which hangs in
Tate Britain, luminously near-abstract, is one of the great treasures of the collection.
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