{"id":69594,"date":"2017-10-20T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-berwick-upon-tweed-northumberland-its-delightful\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T23:06:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:06:47","slug":"lets-move-to-berwick-upon-tweed-northumberland-its-delightful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-berwick-upon-tweed-northumberland-its-delightful\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland: it\u2019s delightful"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis town is the most fought-over in Europe \u2013 and it has the walls to prove itWhat\u2019s going for it? Walls and borders are so 2017, sadly, thanks to Trump, Brexit and the world\u2019s current miseries. There has never been any escaping them in Berwick, mind you. This is the frontier town, the most fought-over in Europe, scrapped over by the English and the Scots, and it has the town walls to prove it. Elizabeth I built them (not herself, obvs), with her eye on the Scots\u2019 Auld Alliance with the French. The Union of the Crowns rendered them superfluous a few decades later, although people have long memories round here; the Scottish Borders tourist board offered \u00a38,000 for the place in 2002 and Berwick might have become a border town once more, had the Scottish referendum turned out differently. All that back and forth has left this beautiful, stern, pragmatic place a muddied patch. The townsfolk\u2019s accent hovers between Borders and Northumbrian burr, and, trivia geeks, Berwick Rangers are the only English football team who play in a Scottish league. Fact.The case against A little isolated, so it\u2019s a good job it\u2019s so delightful. I suspect the economy could do with more people staying, fewer passing through. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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