Alnwick, Northumberland

Alnwick Castle, rising above the River Aln, dominates the town's prints, together with the ruined abbeys in its park. Grose ...

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Alnwick Castle, rising above the River Aln, dominates the town's prints, together with the ruined abbeys in its park. Grose engraved the castle and Alnwick Abbey in 1776, and Allom's views of 1832 and 1839 show the castle, its entrance, Alnwick Abbey and Hulne Abbey. There are further views from 1817 to 1893, an 1867 parade of schoolchildren, Lilburn Tower, and architectural plans of an infirmary and an architect's cottage. The maps begin with the great road books, as Senex, Gardner, Owen and Bowen, Kitchin and Paterson follow the road through Morpeth to Belford and Berwick. Cary, the Ordnance Survey, Ward Lock and later county sheets widen the view to the coastal plain and the Cheviot Hills.

Alnwick Castle, rising above the River Aln, dominates the town's prints, together with the ruined abbeys in its park. Grose engraved the castle and Alnwick Abbey in 1776, and Allom's views of 1832 and 1839 show the castle, its entrance, Alnwick Abbey and Hulne Abbey. There are further views from 1817 to 1893, an 1867 parade of schoolchildren, Lilburn Tower, and architectural plans of an infirmary and an architect's cottage. The maps begin with the great road books, as Senex, Gardner, Owen and Bowen, Kitchin and Paterson follow the road through Morpeth to Belford and Berwick. Cary, the Ordnance Survey, Ward Lock and later county sheets widen the view to the coastal plain and the Cheviot Hills.

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