Bowsden

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Bowsden
Northumberland
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Farmland near Bowsden Moor
Location
Grid reference: NT995415
Location: 55°40’1"N, 2°0’25"W
Data
Population: 178  (2011)
Post town: Berwick upon Tweed
Postcode: TD15
Local Government
Council: Northumberland

Bowsden is a village in northern Northumberland, about six miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed, inland from the North Sea coast at Lindisfarne. It has a recordfed population at the 2011 census of just 178.

Landmarks

The Devil's Causeway passes the village about a mile to the east. The causeway is a Roman road driven north of the Romans’ northern frontier: it starts at Port Gate on Hadrian's Wall, north of Corbridge, and extends 55 miles northwards across Northumberland to the mouth of the River Tweed at Berwick-upon-Tweed.

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