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Border Bastles, Reiving and Thieving

Sat 13 Sep 25
Sat 13 Sep:1000-1600; Sun 14 Sep:1000-1600; Mon 15 Sep:1000-1600; Tues 16 Sep:1000-1600; Wed 17 Sep:1000-1600; Thu 18 Sep:1000-1600; Fri 19 Sep:1000-1600; Sat 20 Sep:1000-1600; Sun 21 Sep:1000-1600; Free Entry. Station Yard, Woodburn Road, Bellingham NE48 2DG Heritage Open Day: Explore the buildings and lifestyle of the notorious Border Reivers, at the Heritage Centre and beyond. The Reivers lived by raiding each other’s livestock and possessions, and you can still see their fortified buildings in the landscape. Tynedale and Redesdale were notorious for reiving activities, between the late 1200s and the early 1600s. Families such as the Armstrongs, Elliots, Grahams and Forsters formed tight-knit clans or “graynes”, relying on mutual protection and often raiding neighbouring families. The term “blackmail” originates from their practice of extracting payments for protection and “bereaved” from the practice of setting fire to the property of neighbours as a hint that they should move on... READ MORE>

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