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4 unusual facts about Otterburn


Border Hunt

Since then, the Border Hunt Mastership has been with the Hedley Family and the hounds are kennelled near Otterburn, Northumberland.

Middlemarch, New Zealand

As with many places in and close to the Maniototo area, its name may have been influenced by the Northumberland ancestry of early surveyor John Turnbull Thomson (there is a Middle March region in Northumberland, centred around the town of Otterburn).

Otterburne, Manitoba

It is named after Otterburn in England, and is perhaps best known as the location of Providence University College and Theological Seminary.

Ramsay Muir

Muir was born at Otterburn, Northumberland, the oldest of five children of a Reformed Presbyterian minister.


A696 road

It heads in a south-easterly direction through the village of Otterburn, and then past Kirkwhelpington.

Otterburn Tower

Originally founded by a cousin of William the Conqueror in 1086, it was later owned by the Clan Hall, before being rebuilt in 1830 by Thomas James, a magistrate, on the site and using some of the stones from the Otterburn Castle.


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