Photo update. A view of Alnmouth from Church Hill (1/9/09)

This is just over the estuary, but over an hour's walk from . To think I have lived in Northumberland for 27 years and never walked to this amazing place, where Cuthbert was made a bishop in 684AD.

A Saxon church was built on Church Hill when King Egbrid and his nobles with Bishop Trunwine set sail from Alnmouth to beg of St. Cuthbert, at his retreat on Lindisfarne, to become the Bishop of Lindisfarne. Cuthbert agreed to their request and a Synod was held at Twyford, the place of two fords, this place was recognised as Alnmouth, one ford being below the church hillrunning west and the other at Pan Leazes to the north of the church hill.

[the above from alnmouth.org.uk]

In AD 684 at Alnmouth (under the name of Twyford – the place of two fords), Cuthbert, later to become St. Cuthbert, was chosen to become Bishop of Lindisfarne, in the presence of King Ecgrith and Archbishop Thodore.

In AD 793, the Vikings raided Lindisfarne and over the following years plundered many places on the East Coast. In 1789 two fragments of a Saxon cross were found on Church Hill, dating back to the late 9^th / early 10^th centuries.

[the above from alnmouth.co.uk]