Preston Tower
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Overview
Alongside walks through beech woods and gardens, visitors can see the remains of a late 15th-century pele tower, built as a proper defensive structure to protect the owners of the estate against Border country raiders. Its walls are seven feet thick and the first two floors are furnished as they may have been in the 1400s. Also on the second floor is a display about the nearby Battle of Flodden (1513) in which James VI of Scotland was killed. The tower also contains a large Victorian clock mechanism of the same design as Big Ben and striking the hours only.
Features
- Opening Times
- Open all year
- Opening Times: Open daily, daylight until sunset or 6pm (closed Xmas Day)
- Facilities
- Parking onsite
- Children
About the area
If it’s history you’re after, there’s heaps of it in Northumberland. On Hadrian’s Wall you can imagine scarlet-cloaked Roman legionaries keeping watch for painted Pictish warriors while cursing the English weather and dreaming of home.
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