Let’s move to Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland: it’s delightful
This town is the most fought-over in Europe – and it has the walls to prove itWhat’s going for it? Walls and borders are so 2017, sadly, thanks to Trump, Brexit and the world’s current miseries. There has never been any escaping them in Berwick, mind you. This is the frontier town, the most fought-over in Europe, scrapped over by the English and the Scots, and it has the town walls to prove it. Elizabeth I built them (not herself, obvs), with her eye on the Scots’ Auld Al
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