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At the heart of the Northumbrian Borderland, Rothbury nestles in the richness of the Coquet Valley at the foot of tree-clad slopes which climb steeply to open onto the wild and beautiful heather-topped expanses of the Simonside and Cheviot Hills. The ancient market town is the 'Gateway to the Northumberland National Park', a springboard into the haunting peace and solitude of a sweeping moorland paradise for walkers, bird-watchers and pony-trekkers alike.

Rothbury can trace its origins back to c.1100 and all around in the surrounding hills, evidence of much earlier Bronze Age settlements and hill forts abound, with their enigmatic cup and ring marks and cairns. Today the traditional mellow stone houses of the main street cut through a sloping green, shaded by mature sycamores. The bridge which spans the Coquet is a modern deck resting on the arches of a sixteenth-century Packhorse Bridge which had to be widened when the eighteenth-century Corn Laws caused a massive increase in traffic.

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