Visit Bamburgh Places

Welcome to Visit Bamburgh Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Bamburgh

  

Bamburgh Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Bamburgh

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Bamburgh history

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Site now occupied by Bamburgh Castle was previously home to a fort of the Celtic Britons known as Din Guarie. It may have been the capital of the kingdom of Bernicia, the realm of the Gododdin people, from the realm’s foundation in c. 420 until 547, the year of the first written reference to the castle. In that year the citadel was captured by the Anglo-Saxon ruler Ida and became Ida’s seat.

You can visit Bamburgh places with Walkfo Bamburgh to hear history at Bamburgh’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Bamburgh has 14 places to visit in our interactive Bamburgh map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Bamburgh, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Bamburgh places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Bamburgh & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 14 audio facts unique to Bamburgh places in an interactive Bamburgh map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Bamburgh Places Map
14 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Bamburgh historic spots	Bamburgh tourist destinations	Bamburgh plaques	Bamburgh geographic features
Walkfo Bamburgh tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Bamburgh

  

Best Bamburgh places to visit

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Bamburgh has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Bamburgh’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Bamburgh’s information audio spots:

St Aidan’s Church, Bamburgh St Aidan’s Church, Bamburgh is a Grade I listed Church of England building in the Diocese of Newcastle. It was built in the 1960s.

Monument to Grace Darling The Monument to Grace Darling, in the churchyard of St Aidan’s Church, Bamburgh, Northumberland is a Victorian Gothic memorial. The monument was designed by Anthony Salvin, with later renovations by Frederick Wilson, C. R. Smith and W. S. Hicks.

Brada Hill Brada Hill is a small hill escarpment near the coast of north Northumberland in North East England. The 2.4 hectares (5.9 acres) site is an outcropping of a local stone group, the Whin Sill.

Waren (port) Waren was England’s northernmost mainland port during periods in which Berwick Upon Tweed was controlled by the Kingdom of Scotland. The port was associated with Bamburgh and its castle, situated 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the east-south-east.

Bradford Kames Bradford Kames is the name given to a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in north Northumberland. The site is an esker, a ridge of glacial till deposited in the Pleistocene epoch.

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