![]() ![]() “The kingdom of Northumbria was massive, and people came from all over the world to visit it,” says co-founder and Northumberland local Alan Ferguson. ![]() ![]() It’s hoped the museum will encourage more people to visit the area and discover its history. Aerial photographs led to the site’s discovery in 1949 near the hamlet of Yeavering and it became one of the most important archaeological finds in 20th-century Britain, though little of it remains. The Ad Gefrin Anglo-Saxon museum and whisky distillery is less than five miles from the archaeological site of Gefrin, a seventh-century palace where Anglo-Saxon kings such as Edwin, Oswald and Oswiu held court in a vast complex of timber buildings, around 70 miles north of Hadrian’s Wall. On the cusp of the Cheviot Hills and Northumberland National Park, a new museum dedicated to the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria has opened in the market town of Wooler, aiming to breathe life into the stories of the area’s forgotten kings and queens. This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). ![]()
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