Moorlaws

Places of Interest

Hulne Park

Park

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Hulne Park is the only one remaining of the three parks that once surrounded Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, providing wood and meat for the Percy family, the Dukes of Northumberland. Hulne Park is situated 1½ miles northeast of Moorlaws.

Bolton Chapel

Church

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Bolton Chapel is a church, which is situated 2 miles west of Moorlaws.

Brizlee Tower

Tower

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Brizlee Tower is a Grade 1 listed folly set atop a hill in Hulne Park, the walled home park of the Duke of Northumberland in Alnwick, Northumberland. The tower was erected in 1781 for Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and commands extensive views over North Northumberland and the Borders.

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Abberwick

Locality

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Abberwick is a hamlet near the River Aln, in the civil parish of Edlingham, in the English county of Northumberland.

Bolton

Village

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Bolton is a village in the civil parish of Hedgeley, in the county of Northumberland, England. It is situated on the north side of the River Aln, about two miles east by north from Whittingham, and 5+1⁄2 miles west from Alnwick. Bolton is situated 2 miles west of Moorlaws.

Hulne Priory

Locality

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Hulne Priory, Hulne Friary or Hulne Abbey was a friary founded in 1240 by the Carmelites or 'Whitefriars'. It is said that the Northumberland site, quite close to Alnwick, was chosen for some slight resemblance to Mount Carmel where the order originated. Hulne Priory is situated 2 miles northeast of Moorlaws.

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