Castles and Strongholds of Northumberland: A History and Gazetteer

by Brian Long

Much more than an excellent gazetteer, an engaging history using contemporary sources shows whose hands the defence of the Anglo-Scottish border was in while Henry VIII was at Agincourt. Subsequent surveys show how Christopher Dacre forwarded a bold project that linked a string of towers forming a defence against marauding Scots, suggesting new towers to stop gaps, a 'dyke or defence' joining them like a latter-day Hadrian's Wall. Beyond this line...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750994096
• ISBN13: 9780750994095
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 256 Pages