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Dist:0.1km<br/>An 14th century defensive tower with walls 8 feet thick.
©Duncan Grey
Dist:0.1km<br/>View across Elsdon with Elsdon Tower clearly visible.
©Peter McDermott
Dist:0.1km<br/>In the foreground is the ditch between the earthworks of the motte (left) and bailey (right).
©Andrew Curtis
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©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.1km<br/>A fortified medieval Tower House built in the C16th and known as the 'Vicar's Pele'. It is situated in an elevated position on the northern edge of Elsdon village green. The building was restored in 1995 and is the oldest, continuously inhabited property in Northumberland National Park http://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/elsdontowerhouse
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.2km<br/>View from the road below Mote Hills. The owl is part of [[2727038]] Elsdon Tower (pele) is high up on the bank above Elsdon Burn.
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.2km<br/>Elsdon Tower can be seen behind. The complex rearrangements of the turnpike roads in the early C19th that led to the building of the bridge in 1825 are described here http://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/understanding/historyarchaeology/historicvillageatlas/elsdonvillageatlas/elsdonhistory/elsdonroadscommunications The final alteration saw the bridge itself become redundant as the stretch of road from Elsdon village to the north was rerouted along the east side of the Elsdon Burn.
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.2km<br/>There is another photo here [[2727050]]
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.2km<br/>Record in 1415 as a "vicar's pele, it is generally regarded as a 14th century pele tower but it was substantially rebuilt in the 16th century.
©Phil Thirkell
Dist:0.2km<br/>Elsdon Tower in the village of Elsdon.http://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/elsdontowerhouse
©Colin Kinnear
Dist:0.2km<br/>View of Elsdon Village seen from Gallow Hill.
©Peter McDermott
Dist:0.2km<br/>A popular venue for cyclists from Tyneside; situated on the Pennine Cycleway
©Oliver Dixon
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©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.3km<br/>The bridge on the right takes the Otterburn to Rothbury road over the Elsdon Burn. The mound of the Motte & Bailey castle [[1521231]] can be seen between the houses.
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.3km<br/>View of Elsdon village seen from the east.
©Peter McDermott

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