Powburn
| Powburn | |
| Northumberland | |
|---|---|
 Powburn | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NU065165 |
| Location: | 55°26’35"N, 1°53’46"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | NE66 |
| Dialling code: | 01665 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Northumberland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Berwick-upon-Tweed |
Powburn is a small village on the A697 in Northumberland about eight miles south of Wooler and ten miles northwest of Alnwick.
About the village
The Devil's Causeway passes through the village and continues north under the A697 road crossing the River Till. The causeway is a Roman road which starts at Port Gate on Hadrian's Wall, north of Corbridge, and northwards of that old frontier for fifty-five miles across Northumberland to the mouth of the River Tweed at Berwick-upon-Tweed.
A more recent route, the Berwick Borough Boundary Walk passes through Powburn using local footpaths.
The village pub is The Plough.
By the roadside a stiff half-mile eastwards from Powburn is Crawley Tower, a fine Border country pele constructed largely of material from the Roman camp one corner of which it occupies. The station has been a strong one (its defensive ditch is still imposing) and probably guarded the crossing, near Hedgeley Railway Station, of the Breamish by the Devil's Causeway.[1]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Powburn) |
References
- ↑ Road Guide to Northumberland and The Border. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Andrew Reid & Company, Limited. 1931.