Nice place Alnwick and lots of great places nearby like the castle town Warkworth and the harthorpe and breamish valleys near wooler, I'm about 25 miles south of alnwick in a shithole town of bedlington
there are some real miserable places up on the east coast, we used to drive down going on the beaches with the dogs, some of the towns are really stuck in the past.
Beaches are great though, totally empty...