Norham Castle, the Border fortress of the Bishops of Durham, on the right bank of the Tweed, 8 miles SW. of Berwick. Founded in 1121, and deemed impregnable in 1522, it has memories of Kings John, Edward I., and James IV., but is known best through Marmion. The picturesque ruins comprise a great square keep, 70 feet high. See Hubert Jerningham's Norham Castle (1883).
Norham Castle
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 518
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