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Britain’s Treasures

BAMBURGH CASTLE Northumberland

Bamburgh is perhaps most famously the court of King Oswald of Northumbria - later St Oswald - who founded the priory at Lindisfarne
ALAMY X7

TOWER OF JOY

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BBC History Revealed Magazine
October 2019
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