The burning of Wooler in 1341 was part of the sustained Scottish raiding after Bannockburn. Wooler, a market town in the Northumberland hills, was a natural target — large enough to yield substantial plunder but too small to defend itself. Raids of this kind were conducted so frequently throughout the mid-fourteenth century that many Northumberland communities simply abandoned their settlements and moved to more defensible locations.
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