A Northumbrian Escape with Battlesteads Hotel

2025 was the first year in a long time that we didn’t manage to squeeze in a trip to Northumberland. It’s one of our favourite places: super dog friendly, endless beautiful walking and plenty of…

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Exploring Coquetdale with Copper Beech Cottages

Anyone who’s spoken to me for more than 10 minutes will be able to tell you that I absolutely love Northumberland. It’s one of my all time favourite dog friendly holiday destinations – it’s really…

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Beadnell

The Northumberland coast is increasingly popular, as more and more people cotton on to the fact that it is (if you ask me) miles better than the over crowded beaches in the south. While the…

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48 Hours in Northumberland

We spent last weekend back up in Northumberland – Sam had signed up for a run on the Saturday, so we travelled up on the Friday afternoon and made a mini-holiday of it. Rather than…

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Lordenshaws Hillfort

You can’t go far in Northumberland without stumbling across a hillfort. Humbleton hillfort is famous as the site of Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy’s annihilation of the Scottish army in 1402, while the Breamish Valley hillforts are…

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