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Norham

Nearest town: Berwick

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: St Cuthbert

Diocese: Newcastle

County: Northumberland

Country: England

Grid ref: not known

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 2-Oct-00

Recorded by: Paul Greenwood

Protection & responsibility: No data

Yews recorded at this site: Notable

Notes: An ancient site on the south of the river Tweed, where St Aedan crossed in 635 a.d. on his mission to evangelise Northumbria which founded Lindisfarne. First stone church was founded here in 830 a.d. and housed the bones of St Ceowulph, a Northumbrian king and later saint. The Norman Bishops of Durham built another larger church nearby in the 12th century.