Norham

Norham is a village in Northumberland, England, right on the south bank of the Tweed and the border with Scotland.

Norham Castle from the 12th century has long been the center of Norhamshire, an exclave of County Durham, who came to Northumberland 1844.

In 1292, here met the English King Edward I, the Scottish nobility, to determine the future king of Scotland.

Walter Scott's poem Marmion, which deals with the Battle of Flodden Field ( 1513), begins with the verse:

The painter William Turner's picture of Norham Castle hangs in the Tate Gallery of British Art, and is one of the most valuable works of the gallery.