The
River Aln runs through the county of
NorthumberlandNorthumberland is a ceremonial county and unitary district in the North East of England. It borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham to the south and Tyne and Wear to the south east, as well as having a border with the Scottish Borders council area to the north, and nearly eighty miles of North...
in England, discharging into the
North SeaThe North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean. It is more than long and wide, with an area of around...
on the east coast of England.
The river gives its name to the town of
AlnwickAlnwick Alnwick Alnwick ( is a small market town in north Northumberland, England. The towns population was just over 8000 at the time of the 2001 census and Alnwick's district population was 31,029....
and to the village of
AlnmouthAlnmouth is a village in Northumberland, England. It is situated just off the main A1068 road , about south-east of Alnwick....
, and its source, Alnham in the
Cheviot HillsThe Cheviot Hills are a range of rolling hills straddling the England/Scotland border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.Broadly there is a split between the Northern Cheviots which encompass most of the high ground and has five main valleys...
. The Aln is a relatively small river but has been important through history as one of the boundaries along which English and Scottish troops marching to war had to cross; for that reason, it was at times heavily defended.
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The
River Aln runs through the county of
NorthumberlandNorthumberland is a ceremonial county and unitary district in the North East of England. It borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham to the south and Tyne and Wear to the south east, as well as having a border with the Scottish Borders council area to the north, and nearly eighty miles of North...
in England, discharging into the
North SeaThe North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean. It is more than long and wide, with an area of around...
on the east coast of England.
The river gives its name to the town of
AlnwickAlnwick Alnwick Alnwick ( is a small market town in north Northumberland, England. The towns population was just over 8000 at the time of the 2001 census and Alnwick's district population was 31,029....
and to the village of
AlnmouthAlnmouth is a village in Northumberland, England. It is situated just off the main A1068 road , about south-east of Alnwick....
, and its source, Alnham in the
Cheviot HillsThe Cheviot Hills are a range of rolling hills straddling the England/Scotland border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.Broadly there is a split between the Northern Cheviots which encompass most of the high ground and has five main valleys...
. The Aln is a relatively small river but has been important through history as one of the boundaries along which English and Scottish troops marching to war had to cross; for that reason, it was at times heavily defended. For example, the river flows past
Alnwick CastleAlnwick Castle is a castle and stately home in Alnwick, Northumberland, England, UK and the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, built following the Norman conquest, and renovated and remodelled a number of times. It is a Grade I listed building....
which was built for this purpose.
AdtwifyrdiThe Synod of Twyford was a synod of the early English church held in 684 and described by Bede in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Book IV, ch. 28. The synod was held at a place called "Adtwifyrdi", the location of which is unknown...
is the name used by the
Venerable BedeBede , also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or Beda , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria.He is well known as an author and...
to describe the meeting of river and
tributaryA tributary is a stream or river which flows into a main stem river. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea. Tributaries and the mainstem river serve to drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater by leading the water out into an ocean or some other large body...
at the mouth of the River Aln.