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    Wark or Wark on Tweed is a village in the English county of Northumberland. It lies about 15 mi (24 km) south west of Berwick-upon-Tweed. It is on the...
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    Wark on Tweed Castle, sometimes referred to as Carham Castle, is a ruined motte-and-bailey castle at the West end of Wark on Tweed in Northumberland. The...
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  • WARK (AM), talk radio station in Hagerstown, Maryland Wark on Tweed, a village in Carham parish, in the north of England bordering Scotland Wark on Tyne...
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    The siege of Wark is a 1138 siege of Wark on Tweed Castle (Wark castle) conducted from May–November by Scottish forces under David I against the defending...
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  • Wark Castle may refer to: Wark on Tweed Castle, Northumberland Wark in Tyndale Castle, Northumberland Wark (disambiguation), a Scots noun for a building...
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    Otterburn Redesdale & River Rede Scremerston Spittal Twizell Castle Wark on Tweed Wooler Yeavering Auchenrivock Tower Canonbie Gilnockie Tower Gretna...
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    Roddam Shoreswood Wooler, Wark on Tweed Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council elections Statistics about the Berwick-upon-Tweed borough from the Office for...
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  • Alnham), Unthank (near Haltwhistle) Vindolanda Wall,Wallington, Wark on Tweed, Wark on Tyne, Warkworth, West Chevington, West Woodburn, Whalton, Widdrington...
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  • the northernmost part of Northumberland (including Berwick-upon-Tweed, Cornhill-on-Tweed and Mindrum), plus a part of south-eastern East Lothian and a very...
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    captured and taken prisoner by Sir John de Coupland. The king was taken to Wark on Tweed, and then to Bamburgh Castle, where barber-surgeons from York were brought...
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    Birgham (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    and the River Tweed, on the A698. Birgham is close to Ednam, Kelso, Lempitlaw, Leitholm and Sprouston as well as Carham and Wark on Tweed, Northumberland...
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    detachment turned south to attack Wark on Tweed Castle, while the bulk of the army followed the course of the Tweed downstream to the northeast to invest...
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    in Yorkshire, and before 1189 by gift of King Henry II the barony of Wark on Tweed in Northumberland. Left fatherless, his lands were initially in the...
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    Battle of Flodden (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    detachment turned south to attack Wark on Tweed Castle, while the bulk of the army followed the course of the Tweed downstream to the northeast to invest...
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    Berwick-upon-Tweed. The fall of Berwick is a severe blow for King Edward II, and its loss is compounded by the fall of the Northumbrian castles of Wark-on-Tweed (Carham...
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    the king himself fought a larger campaign. This force assembled at Wark on Tweed and moved north. The English advanced in three divisions, harassed by...
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    Chillingham, Ford (1287), Dunstanburgh (1313), Morpeth, Langley (1350), Wark on Tweed and Norham (1121), the latter an enclave of the palatine bishops of...
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    Cornhill-on-Tweed is a small village and civil parish in Northumberland, England about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east of Coldstream, Scotland. The hamlets...
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    They had at least one son and three daughters: Ivetta Grey (born 1350 Wark-on-Tweed) of Heaton, who married William Clopton of Wickhambrook(d.1377), [Buckenham...
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    to sent to Henry VIII for approval. Arcano was sent to advise on repairs at Wark on Tweed Castle in February 1545. He sent a plan to the Earl of Shrewsbury...
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  • Austin Friars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    friary is believed to have been founded by William Lord Ros, Baron of Wark on Tweed, about the year 1290, at a site in Cowgate. Around 1540, the friary...
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    In 1138, when Rievaulx's patron, Walter Espec, was to surrender his Wark on Tweed Castle to King David of Scotland, Aelred reportedly accompanied Abbot...
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    Coldstream (category Populated places on the River Tweed)
    Scotland and England runs down the middle of the River Tweed, however between the villages of Wark and Cornhill the Scottish border comes south of the river...
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  • Stuteville who was sheriff of Northumberland from 1170 to 1185, and defended Wark on Tweed Castle against William the Lion in 1174. Roger received charge of Edinburgh...
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    under-strength; it quickly fell. Having failed to rapidly seize the castle at Wark on Tweed, David detached forces to besiege it and moved deeper into Northumberland...
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    known as "the Craven Poet", was an English poet. Story was born at Wark on Tweed in Northumberland in the northeastern England in 1795. His father Robin...
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  • Berwick-upon-Tweed. The fall of Berwick is a severe blow for King Edward II, and its loss is compounded by the fall of the Northumbrian castles of Wark-on-Tweed (Carham...
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  • pursuit, slipped across the English border on 25 November 1593. He rested for some hours at Wark-on-Tweed where he took refreshment at an inn. He then...
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  • Norham Castle (garrisoned only by nine), and besieges the castle at Wark on Tweed. 10 April – Robert Warelwast is nominated as Bishop of Exeter. May –...
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  • John Crane (comptroller) (category Garrison of Berwick-upon-Tweed)
    account. In 1591 he contributed to an estimate of repairs needed at Wark on Tweed Castle. In January 1594 he wrote to Robert Cecil asking for the post...
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