Berwick is England’s most northerly town, but over the centuries it has been fought
over and changed hands between the Scots and the English at least 13 times.
Today, the peaceful and unspoiled landscapes and heritage coastline around Berwick
produce a wide variety of excellent quality food and drink ranging from local oysters,
crab and lobster to artisan breads baked in a wood-fired oven, from farmhouse cheeses
and ice-cream to honey from hives set in the fields on either side of the Anglo-Scottish
Border. Visit Berwick in the summer and you may see the last of the traditional
salmon netsmen working on the River Tweed, or you can pick your own raspberries and
strawberries. Within a 30 minute drive you will find picturesque fishing harbours
and Northumberland’s only working water-powered corn-mill.
The town is full of reminders of its food-producing heritage - old salmon fishing
shiels and ice-houses, herring yards and smokehouses, breweries, granaries and maltings.
Explore these pages and find out about the food and drink produced within 25 km of
the mouth of the River Tweed at Berwick, today and in the past.
