Wark is a Village in the county of Northumberland.

Wark postcode: TD12 4RF

Retail in Wark

There are great places to visit near Wark including some great villages, ancient sites, beaches, hiking areas, geological features, castles, ruins, islands, towns, roman sites and historic monuments.

Don't miss Milfield, Craster, and Bamburgh's villages if visiting the area around Wark.

The area close to Wark boasts some of the best ancient sites including Milfield North Henge.

Embleton Bay, and Bamburgh Beach are great places to visit near Wark if you like beaches.

Don't miss Dunstanburgh, Sycamore Gap, and Hadrian's Wall near Hexham's hiking areas if visiting the area around Wark.

Gull Crag and the Rumble Churn, Greymare Rock, and Sycamore Gap are some of Wark best geological features to visit near Wark.

Dunstanburgh Castle is a great place to visit close to Wark if you like castles.

Wark has some unmissable ruins nearby like Dunstanburgh Castle, WWII Sandbag Pillbox, and Old Limekiln at Dunstanburgh.

There are a number of islands near to Wark including Farne Islands.

Hexham, and Berwick-upon-Tweed are some of Wark best towns to visit near Wark.

Wark's best nearby roman sites can be found at Hadrian's Wall near Hexham, and Chesters Roman Fort.

There are a number of historic monuments near to Wark including Flodden.

Wark History

There are some historic monuments around Wark:

• Settlement WSW of Ell's Knowe
• Cottage Hospital, settlement 250m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM12356
• Redden,fort and enclosure 750m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM5601
• Belchester,fort 200m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM4547
• Eccles, St Mary's Convent, nunnery Ecclesiastical: nunnery SM8232
• Little Hetha defended settlement
• Cornhill Castle
• Roman period native farmstead 320m north east of Longknowe
• Twizel Bridge
• Hirsel Law, fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM12349
• Hetha Burn defended settlement, Roman period native enclosed settlement and associated trackways
• Enclosed settlement west of Mid Hill
• Roman period native settlement on east slope of Mid Hill, 520m south of Staw Hill Camp
• Five shielings 620m NNE of Elsdonburn Shank
• Elsdonburn Roman period native settlements and medieval shieling
• Roman period native enclosed settlement 600m north east of Elsdonburn Shank
• St Giles's medieval chapel and burial ground, Wark on Tweed
• Defended settlement, 507m north west of Pawston Lake
• Bowmont Hill camp
• Redden, settlement 60m SE of Secular: settlement, including deserted, depopulated and townships SM13579
• Wark Castle motte and bailey castle and artillery fort
• Settlement at Scaldhill Shank
• Burnt Humbleton,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM4668
• Roman period native settlement 250m west of Elsdonburn Shank
• Enclosed settlement and subsidiary enclosures 160m N of Ring Chesters defended settlement
• Lochton,enclosure 250m SSE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5225
• Homebank,enclosure 1100m ENE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5190
• Settlements and cairn east of Laddies Knowe
• Ell's Knowe defended settlement and earlier palisaded site
• The Mount, motte-and-bailey castle Secular: motte SM386
• Settlement SW of Mid Hill
• Downham camp
• Mersington House, deserted medieval village 100m SW of Secular: settlement, including deserted, depopulated and townships SM4446
• Roman period aggregate village on Coldsmouth Hill, 650m south east of St Ethelrede's Chapel
• Ring Chesters defended settlement
• Bellshiel, fort 540m N of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM12536
• Enclosed settlement, 620m south east of Cornhill Castle
• Birgham Haugh,fort and enclosures 800m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM5017
• Moneylaws Castle Hill camp
• Settlement north west of Ell's Knowe
• East Moneylaws camp
• Littlehaugh Shiel, fort 400m WSW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM12401
• Hamilton House, fort 275m SSW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM12362
• Northern ring cairn on Coldsmouth Hill
• Roman period native settlement 200m SSE of Staw Hill defended settlement
• The Hirsel,settlements & ecclesiastical remains S of Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard; Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM4522
• House platform north west of Laddie's Knowe settlement
• Homebank,ring-ditch 1500m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive); Prehistoric ritual and funerary: enclosure (ritual or funerary) SM5016
• Roman period native enclosed settlement 700m south of Ring Chesters defended settlement
• Staw Hill defended settlement
• Mid Hill enclosed settlement, Westnewton
• Ladykirk House, barrow 105m N of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: barrow SM4470
• The King's Stone NW of Crookham Westfield Farm
• Hut circle, cultivation terraces and farmstead of later prehistoric date, and medieval settlement and field system 800m and 740m south of Elsdonburn Shank
• Southern ring cairn on Coldsmouth Hill
• Twizel medieval tower house and village, post-medieval folly and garden