Castle Morpeth

Castle Morpeth, former borough (district), administrative and historic county of Northumberland, northeastern England, in the southeastern part of the county. It lies just northwest of the heavily industrialized metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and borders the North Sea on the northeast. Castle Morpeth lies on a coarse sandstone upland—where the highest elevations reach about 700 feet (215 metres)—that descends to the east in a series of scarps to a coastal plain with low cliffs...