Thomas Bewick, wood engraver and author of A History of British Birds, the first practical field guide, was born in the village at Cherryburn House, now a National Trust site.
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During his apprenticeship, he drew and engraved the bird's nest that heads the preface in the first volume of A History of British Birds and he engraved the majority of vignettes and tail-pieces for Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell, 1795.