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Set in several acres of awe inspiring Northumberland countryside, Matfen Hall is a magnificent country house hotel. The hotel boasts 53 sumptuous bedrooms, a spa and leisure club, 27 hole golf course and one of the finest dining experiences in Northumberland. Advanced Taxis of Hexham offer a taxi service to Matfen Hall.

Matfen Hall is a charming Northumberland Wedding venue located just 15 miles west of Newcastle. With the Dutch Garden, Great Hall and East Wing they can offer you an exclusive venue for the perfect Wedding Day. Couple that with Advanced Taxis excellent Wedding Car Service for transporting you and your guests and your perfect Wedding Day is complete. Advanced Taxis of Hexham offer a taxi service from Matfen Hall to all major Airports and Newcastle in particular.

Matfen Hall also boasts a fantastic twenty seven hole golf course which is rated as one of the finest in Northumberland. Sympathetically laid out on a classic parkland landscape, the 6700 yard course incorporates challenging water features and unique obstacles such as the dry stone “ha ha” wall. It offers an enjoyable test for golfers of all abilities.

For the more adventurous people there is also GoApe at Matfen. GoApe have built giant obstacle courses up in the trees using ladders, walkways, bridges and tunnels made of wood, rope and super-strong wire, and top it all off with the country’s best zip lines (including the longest at 426 metres). Advanced Taxis operate taxis near Matfen Hall from Hexham, Northumberland. Advanced Taxis can also bring you and your guests to Matfen Hall and GoApe from Newcastle.

Hello, I found this great website for people with a local interest. I used to live in Norham and although I now live in Nottingham I have just released a mystery novel called 'Sins of the Father'
(the haunted life of Doctor James Parker) based in a village in Northumberland I have called Norbridge (possibly Norham) I have changed the name slightly and have added one or two fictional features to aid the storyline. The tale starts just after the end of the second World War and spans two decades up to the mid 1960's...to a Britain which still advocates the death penalty for wilfull murder. It concerns the lives of two young men. Billy Turpin, an orphan who becomes a successful businessman and James Parker who becomes the village doctor. I have chosen the beautiful Coldstream Bridge for the cover of the book, rather than Norham bridge in order to preserve the fictional illusion. There is a ghostly suggestion running through the story and someone told me he thought Wilkie Collins fans would probably love it as it has similarities to 'The Woman in White.' I had not read that story but have since heard an audio tape of the story and am amazed at the similarities. I too have used the device of important letters and have put James Parker into many life threatening situations. I have an 'enchanted churchyard' on the banks of the River Tweed and a white angel.
James Parker is very naive and not really cast in the heroic mould. They say every story needs a hero but if there is a hero to my story then it has to be the awesome historical countryside of Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.
This paperback is available from today by the publisher: Pneuma Springs' or from Amazon, Waterstones, W. H. Smith online and all good bookshops. RRP: £9.99.
search by ISBN: 978-1-905809-77-6
I can be contacted by email: page_david@btconnect.com
or by: harryriley@gmx.com note: I write fiction as Harry Riley and have written for tourist information online as David Page: www.aboutbritain.com Town Guides of Berwick, Chirnside and Norham. I hope you find this interesting and feedback will be very welcome.