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Wooler
Wooler (/ˈwʊlə/ WUUL-ə) is a town in Northumberland, England on the edge of the Northumberland National Park, near the Cheviot Hills. It is a popular base for walkers and is referred to as the "Gateway to the Cheviots". As well as shops and public houses, the town has a youth hostel, hotels and campsites. It lies on the St Cuthbert's Way long-distance footpath between Melrose Abbey and Lindisfarne.
The main A697 road links the town with Morpeth and Coldstream in the Scottish Borders. Wooler has two schools; Wooler First School (including Little Acorns Nursery) and Glendale Community Middle School. They share a single campus on Brewery Road providing education for children in the Glendale area from 2 years old to 13 years old.
Close by to the west is Yeavering Bell, crowned by an Iron Age fort, a stronghold of the Votadini. The remnants of many stone huts can be seen on its summit, which is surrounded by a collapsed stone wall. At the northern base of the hill is the site of Yeavering (Ad Gefrin in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People), which was the summer residence of the early Anglo-Saxon kings of Northumbria.
Wooler was not recorded in Domesday Book because in 1086 northern Northumbria was not under Norman control. By 1107, at the time of the creation of the 1st Baron Wooler, the settlement was described as "situated in an ill-cultivated country under the influence of vast mountains, from whence it is subject to impetuous rains". Wooler subsequently enjoyed a period of prosperity and with its expansion it was granted a licence in 1199 to hold a market every Thursday. St Mary Magdalene Hospital was established around 1288.
Wooler is close to Humbleton Hill, the site of a severe Scottish defeat at the hands of Harry Hotspur in 1402. The battle is referred to at the beginning of William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1 – of which Hotspur is the dashing hero.
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries the patronage and tithe income from the parish church passed from the Bishop of Durham to the Earl of Tankerville.
Alexander Dalziel of Wooler (1781–1832) was the father of the celebrated Dalziel Brothers. Seven of his eight children were artists and became celebrated wood-engravers in London. Their sister Margaret was also a wood-engraver.
There was once a fountain at the top of Church Street. Between 1887 and 1965 the town was served by Wooler railway station on the Alnwick to Cornhill Branch.
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Wooler
Wooler (/ˈwʊlə/ WUUL-ə) is a town in Northumberland, England on the edge of the Northumberland National Park, near the Cheviot Hills. It is a popular base for walkers and is referred to as the "Gateway to the Cheviots". As well as shops and public houses, the town has a youth hostel, hotels and campsites. It lies on the St Cuthbert's Way long-distance footpath between Melrose Abbey and Lindisfarne.
The main A697 road links the town with Morpeth and Coldstream in the Scottish Borders. Wooler has two schools; Wooler First School (including Little Acorns Nursery) and Glendale Community Middle School. They share a single campus on Brewery Road providing education for children in the Glendale area from 2 years old to 13 years old.
Close by to the west is Yeavering Bell, crowned by an Iron Age fort, a stronghold of the Votadini. The remnants of many stone huts can be seen on its summit, which is surrounded by a collapsed stone wall. At the northern base of the hill is the site of Yeavering (Ad Gefrin in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People), which was the summer residence of the early Anglo-Saxon kings of Northumbria.
Wooler was not recorded in Domesday Book because in 1086 northern Northumbria was not under Norman control. By 1107, at the time of the creation of the 1st Baron Wooler, the settlement was described as "situated in an ill-cultivated country under the influence of vast mountains, from whence it is subject to impetuous rains". Wooler subsequently enjoyed a period of prosperity and with its expansion it was granted a licence in 1199 to hold a market every Thursday. St Mary Magdalene Hospital was established around 1288.
Wooler is close to Humbleton Hill, the site of a severe Scottish defeat at the hands of Harry Hotspur in 1402. The battle is referred to at the beginning of William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1 – of which Hotspur is the dashing hero.
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries the patronage and tithe income from the parish church passed from the Bishop of Durham to the Earl of Tankerville.
Alexander Dalziel of Wooler (1781–1832) was the father of the celebrated Dalziel Brothers. Seven of his eight children were artists and became celebrated wood-engravers in London. Their sister Margaret was also a wood-engraver.
There was once a fountain at the top of Church Street. Between 1887 and 1965 the town was served by Wooler railway station on the Alnwick to Cornhill Branch.