111 PLACES IN NORTHUMBERLAND/ SHOULDNT MISS (NEW) (PB)

Once a place of industrial innovation and manufacturing, Northumberland is today loved by residents and visitors for its rolling hills, sandy beaches, and charming towns and villages. With this book in hand, meet Grace Darling, a Victorian heroine who took to storm-tossed seas to help rescue survivors of a terrible shipwreck; visit Amble, the 'Friendliest Port', and discover its connection to the Mauretania, the fastest passenger ship to sail the Atlantic; and take in Turner's View, an atmospheric stretch of coastline that was a lifelong inspiration to Britain's greatest landscape painter.