Berwick-upon-Tweed spent centuries as a pawn in Anglo-Scottish conflict; today, it’s a charming border town with spectacular sights. Clive Aslet takes a look.
The border town, which contained not only a royal castle, but a mint, spent the Middle Ages in a kind of no man’s land when the Scottish king David I pushed the border southwards.
A little over 100 years later, English king Edward I, furious at the Scots’ refusal to submit to him, stormed the wooden…
