Robert Bruce's capture of Berwick in 1318 gave Scotland control of the key northern port and deprived England of its main strategic base for operations against Scotland. The town changed hands repeatedly thereafter — it finally became English permanently only in 1482
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near Northumberland