Local Amenities
Situated within the historic Elizabethan wall and only three minutes walk from the town centre makes shopping and siteseeing in Berwick easy. There are several pubs and hotels that provide a good menu and a good selection of shops including some that provide fresh local produce. The twice-weekly market is held on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the shadow of the town hall where there is always a bargain to be had.
What to see and do
The apartment provides the perfect location for a relaxing holiday. The enclosed courtyard garden can be a suntrap (weather permitting) filled with an array of eye-catching colour from hanging baskets and Mediterranean pots, the perfect place to try out that barbecue.
Arts & crafts and outdoor activities for kids
A kaleidoscope of experiences...
Discover Berwick-on Tweed's natural beauty by walking the Elizabethan walled defences. A distance of slightly over one mile that can be comfortably enjoyed by all the family. Built in 1588 and virtually intact, they are unique in Britain and are the finest surviving 16th Century artillery fortifications in Northern Europe. They form a stark reminder of Berwick's turbulent history. Berwick's barracks, the first purpose built infantry barracks in England, were completed in1721 and are a stones throw from Holy Trinity parish church, one of only two built during the commonwealth period of Cromwell. The prestigious town-hall dates from 1610 and is a must to see. The original gaol is still there complete with condemned cell, branding irons, shackles and leg irons, and this was one jailhouse that treated women as equals.
 
Local attractions
Berwick has golden beaches in abundance, one town golf course, and, just to the South, a links course. The River Tweed, famed for its salmon has regular boat trips that stop at Chain Bridge Honey Farm, a hive of industry, and Paxton House and Country Park with the largest collection of Chippendale furniture in Scotland and the perfect place for your picnic. A short drive takes you to England's cradle of Christianity, The Holy island of Lindisfarne, where in AD635 the monk St. Adain, reintroduced Christianity to the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.
The mission was so successfull that Lindisfarne was known throughout Europe as a centre of religious learning and craftsmanship, and it is here around AD700 the monks created the magnificent Lindisfarne gospels, now considered to be a masterpiece of early Anglo-Saxon/Celtic art.
Click here for a link to local newpaper - "The Berwick Advertiser"
Special arrangements
Other facilities/amenities for which we can help to make you holiday special.
You tell us, and we will have that anniversary/birthday bouquet of flowers here for your arrival. We can also arrange sea-angling trips, and local trout-pond fishing for the experienced and novice. Cycle hire, local theatre tickets and best seats in local shows, pony-treks from hourly to full-day, local produce food hampers, taxis and good local restaurant menus sent by request.
Your Host is a film Star !John Haswell has been an extra in a film being made locally. The storey goes that in the 1870's a Scottish aristocrat goes over to darkest Africa and discovers a tribe of Pigmys and brings a boy and girl back to his huge country estate. They are a curiosity and are exhibited to the local dignitaries but the estate workers are afraid of them and all sorts of things are blamed on them. There is a scene in the cellars of the local Manderson House. Mr Haswell was one of Angus's gang ( estate workers ) and looks very distinguished in Edwardian whiskers.
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