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The starting point for some great walks in the Cheviot Hills. The pub to the left of picture is The Rose and Thistle.
©Chris Tweedy
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking upstream on the road up to Clennell Hall. The Cheviots in the background - Clennell Hill to the left, Silverton Hill to the right [[NT9308]].
©Oliver Dixon
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©Les Hull
Dist:0.3km<br/>Close to the start of Clennell Street - an old drove road into Scotland - with a house at Clennell in the background.
©Trevor Harris
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©Les Hull
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©Andrew Curtis
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©Oliver Dixon
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©Oliver Dixon
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©Les Hull
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©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.4km<br/>The footbridge goes over the burn on to Clennel Street path
©Ian Drummond
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©Ian Drummond
Dist:0.4km<br/>In the C19th, as the Red Lion, it was one of two pubs in the village. It was rebuilt in 1903 and designated a 'Temperance Hotel' on the 3rd edition Ordnance Survey in 1921. By 1940 it had ceased to be used as an inn and had become the post office and village shop http://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/alwintonnineteenth
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.4km<br/>The road on the right leads into Clennell Street. The bridge just beyond the junction carries the Hosedon Burn. Strangely, much nearer its source high in the hills to the north, it is called the Alwinton Burn [[1410367]] The proximity of Clennell Street - one of the most important routes across the Anglo-Scottish border, must have been an important factor influencing the village’s location and development. In the post-medieval centuries Clennell Street was one of the most important droveways for Scottish highlanders taking their cattle to the markets of London and the south and this must have brought a good deal of custom to craftsmen and tradespeople of Alwinton between the 17th and 19th centuries http://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/highalwintonvillage
©Andrew Curtis
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©Andrew Curtis

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