This historic market town (pronounced ‘ann-ick’) dates back to 600AD and lies in the Coquet Valley, deep inside the Northumberland National Park. Find an Alnwick hotel or guest house convenient for Alnwick Castle (second largest inhabited castle in England, after Windsor, built 1310), The Alnwick Garden (the ‘Poison Garden’ contains some of the deadliest plants in the world), Chillingham Wild Cattle Park and the 12th Century Chillingham Castle.