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Alnwick Destination Guide

Touring Alnwick in United Kingdom

Alnwick in the region of England with its 7,940 citizens is located in United Kingdom - some 277 mi or ( 447 km ) North of London , the country's capital city .

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Time in Alnwick is now 02:18 PM (Thursday) . The local timezone is named " Europe/London " with a UTC offset of 0 hours. Depending on your budget, these more prominent places might be interesting for you: Warkworth, Swarland, Sunderland, Stockton-on-Tees, and Sheffield. Being here already, consider visiting Warkworth . We collected some hobby film on the internet . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Check out our recommendations for Alnwick ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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Alnwick International Music Festival 2009

0:40 min by duffandrew1
Views: 1586 Rating: 5.00

Performance by Sarisan, Slovakia. www.alnwickmusicfestival.com Folk art ensemble Sarisan is an artistic body of The Centre for Performing Arts (Park kultury a oddychu) in Presov. ..

A BLOOD RED SKY SNEAK PEEK 2: THE AWAKENING OF CHILLINGHAM

5:15 min by AGHChad
Views: 1454 Rating: 4.82

Want to see "A BLOOD RED SKY" in its entirety? Visit www.abloodredsky.com for trailer, info and tickets to the 11 city "A BLOOD RED TOUR" traveling film festival, held between NOV. 30th - DEC. 21st, i ..


Wilkinson Store Opening - Alnwick

3:40 min by Quentin Field-Boden
Views: 1261 Rating: 5.00

This is the full version of the opening of the new Wilkinson store in Alnwick Northumberland including clips of many staff prior to and after the opening ceremony itself. Trumpet fanfare provided by T ..

Olympic Torch - Alnwick - Northumberland

1:55 min by Quentin Field-Boden
Views: 1183 Rating: 5.00

The Olympic torch arrives in Alnwick in Northumberland on a sunny June day. Large crowds turned out to greet it on this truly once in a lifetime event. ..


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Interesting facts about this location

Lionheart Radio

Lionheart Radio is a community radio station in the north east of England which broadcasts to Northumberland from Fenkle Street in Alnwick. It conducted three and a half months of successful RSL broadcasts and was awarded a Community Licence by Ofcom (The Office of Communications) in November 2005. The first 28-day Restricted Service Licence broadcast was in June 2003, and was the first broadcast of its kind in the Alnwick district.

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Located at 55.41 -1.71 (Lat./Long.); Less than 0 km away
Tags: Alnwick, Community radio stations in the United Kingdom

Tenantry Column

The Tenantry Column is a monument to the south of Alnwick town centre, in Northumberland, England. The Doric column is 83 feet tall and topped by the Percy Lion, symbol of the Percy family. It was designed by the Newcastle architect David Stephenson and erected as thanks to the second Duke of Northumberland, by tenants of the Duke in 1816, following a reduction by the Duke in their rents. This is some 24 years before Nelson's Column was erected.

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Located at 55.41 -1.70 (Lat./Long.); Less than 0 km away
Tags: Alnwick, Buildings and structures completed in 1816, Monumental columns in the United Kingdom, Monuments and memorials in Northumberland, Visitor attractions in Northumberland

Barter Books

Barter Books is a second-hand bookshop located in the historic English market town of Alnwick, Northumberland owned and run by Stuart and Mary Manley. It has over 200,000 visitors a year, 40% of whom are from outside the area, and is one of the largest second-hand bookstores in Europe. It is considered a local tourist attraction and has been described as "the British Library of second-hand bookshops.

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Located at 55.41 -1.70 (Lat./Long.); Less than 1 km away
Tags: Alnwick, Bookshops of the United Kingdom

Alnwick

Alnwick is a small market town in north Northumberland, England. The town's population was just over 8,000 at the time of the 2001 census, while the former Alnwick district's population was 31,029. According to Country Life, October 2002, "Alnwick is the most picturesque market town in Northumberland, and the best place to live in Britain".

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Located at 55.42 -1.70 (Lat./Long.); Less than 1 km away
Tags: Alnwick, Articles including recorded pronunciations (UK English), Civil parishes in Northumberland, Market towns in Northumberland, Post towns in the NE postcode area, Towns in Northumberland

Alnwick District

Alnwick was a local government district of Northumberland, England. Its council was based in Alnwick town and the district had a population of 31,029 according to the 2001 census. It was one of the most rural and sparsely populated districts in the United Kingdom, having a resident population of 31,029 in an area of 1,070 square kilometres, according to the 2001 census. (That is 29 persons per km² compared with the UK average of 245 persons per km².

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Located at 55.41 -1.69 (Lat./Long.); Less than 1 km away
Tags: Alnwick, Alnwick (district), English districts abolished in 2009, Former non-metropolitan districts of Northumberland, Local government in Northumberland

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