Warkworth Castle

The sun was out this morning and it was very warm with beautiful blue skies and hardly a cloud in sight. It looked like this might be the best day so far. We set off for Warkworth Castle. Unfortunately by the time we got to Warkworth it had clouded over and was a little chilly.

Warkworth Castle has an extremely well preserved, cross shaped keep, built mostly in the fourteenth century. It was here that most of the Percy family, earls of Northumberland lived during the fourteenth sand fifteenth centuries Unfortunately it turned out that the Warkworth Hermitage is only open on Sunday and Monday's. We decide to go in search of it for future reference. It lies about half a mile from the castle on the banks of the River Coquet and can only be reached by the rowing boat ferry. On the way back we called in at Amble and Alnmouth.