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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Wark on Tweed from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "WARK, or Werk, a hamlet, with a [railway] station, in Carham parish, Northumberland; on the river Tweed, and on the Tweedmouth and Kelso railway, 2½ miles W by S of Cornhill. The manor belonged to the De Roses, passed to the Greys, and belongs now to the Earl of Tankerville.[Wark] Castle sustained eleven sieges by the Scots; was seven times taken; is alleged to have originated the noble order of the Garter, at a ball given by Edward III.; and is now represented by only ramparts and outworks."
Research Tips
- Northumberland Archives previously known as Northumberland Collections Service and Northumberland County Record Office. Now based within Woodhorn Museum in Ashington and providing free access to numerous records for local and family historians alike.
- Full postal address: Museum and Northumberland Archives, Queen Elizabeth II Country Park, Ashington, Northumberland, NE63 9YF; Phone: 01670 624455
- There is a branch office in Berwick upon Tweed.
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