Berwick-upon-Tweed

Elizabethan walled town and barracks, the Tweed Estuary, high cliffs and mute swans.

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What can I do?

Take part in The Food Heritage of Berwick-upon-Tweed – project celebrating producing, processing and preparing food and drink in the past and present. More
Walk around the impressive Elizabethan walls that circle the town, the most expensive undertaking of the Elizabethan period.
Visit the Hawksmoor-designed barracks that house Berwick Borough Museum and Art Gallery and The King’s Own Scottish Borderers Museum.
Follow in the footsteps of artist LS Lowry and check out the sites of many of his paintings on the Lowry Trail.
Visit the 170 year old lifeboat station.
Watch hundreds of mute swans in the Tweed Estuary moulting colony, the second largest mute swan colony in Britain, or walk north along the coast to find the puffin breeding site at Needle’s Eye.
Embark on the 24km long Berwickshire Coastal Path to St Abbs, taking in the highest cliffs in Northumberland.
Explore the geology of the town and coastal rockpools, with excellent examples of folded and faulted carboniferous rocks.
Stay at Ford Castle – either as a school group or for weekend family activities.

Berwick upon Tweed Tourist Information Centre is open all year.
Berwick Barracks is open March/April to September.
The RNLI lifeboat station is usually open in the summer months. There is no shop on site.
Berwick was once part of Scotland. After changing hands fourteen times in two centuries, it finally became part of England in 1482.