بريك-أپون-تويد

بريك-أپون-تويد
View over Berwick-upon-Tweed town centre
بريك-أپون-تويد Location within the United Kingdom
Population	12٬043 ( تعداد 2011)
OS grid reference	NT995525
• London	345 miles (555 km)
Civil parish	Berwick-upon-Tweed
Unitary authority	نورثمبرلاند
Ceremonial county	نورثمبرلاند
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	بريك-أپون-تويد
Postcode district	TD15
Dialling code	01289
EU Parliament	شمال شرق انگلترا
UK Parliament	بريك-أپون-تويد
Website	Berwick-upon-Tweed Town Council

بريك-أپون-تويد Berwick-upon-Tweed ( /ˈbɛrɪk əpɒn ˈtwiːd/) غالية اسكتلندية: Bearaig a Deas) هي مدينة في مقاطعة نورثمبرلاند شمال إنگلترا، على الساحل الشرقي في مصب نهر تويد. وتقع على بعد 2 كيلومتر ونصف (4 كم) إلى الجنوب من الحدود الاسكتلندية. ذلك هو ما يقرب من 56 ميلا الى الشرق والجنوب الشرقي من إدنبرة، و65 ميلا الى الشمال من نيوكاسل أبون تاين و 345 كيلومتر الى الشمال من لندن.

 التاريخ

 الحكم الانجليزي

Part of the town walls

Berwick on Tweed Fortress Detail

Berwick on Tweed Main High Street

 التاريخ الحالي

Berwick-upon-Tweed from across the river.

 الإدارة

The Town Hall (1754) houses a ring of bells above the Council chamber and a former gaol.

 معالم بريك

The Royal Border Bridge seen through the span of the Royal Tweed Bridge in Berwick

60163 Tornado passes over the Royal Border Bridge on the East Coast Main Line

 مشاهير بريك

Henry Travers (left) with James Stewart (right)

• James Cockburn, first speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, born in Berwick
• George Frederick Cooke (1756–1811), widely called the first Romantic actor in England
• Alan Martin, co-creator of the comic and movie character Tank Girl, lives in Berwick
• Jeremy Purvis, Liberal Democrat MSP, and youngest person in Scottish Parliament at time of election
• Ian Sarfas, English darts player played in the 1994 BDO World Darts Championships
• Trevor Steven, England and Everton footballer, born in Berwick
• Joseph Stevenson, prominent English Catholic archivist and Society of Jesus priest, born in Berwick
• Patrick Tonyn, born in Berwick in 1725, a military general and Governor of British East Florida
• Henry Travers, grew up in Berwick (although actually born in Prudhoe), was a character actor, most famously as Clarence the angel in It's a Wonderful Life
• Eric Lomax, the author of The Railway Man lived in Berwick-upon-Tweed

See also Berwick Castle for Governors of the castle and Berwick-upon-Tweed (UK Parliament constituency) for a list of former MPs.

 انظر أيضاً

• Berwick-upon-Tweed (UK Parliament constituency)
• Berwick-upon-Tweed railway station
• Scottish Marches
• Scots' Dike
• Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War
• Berwick Annual Film and Media Arts Festival

 المصادر

 قائمة المراجع

• Scott, John (1888). Berwick-upon-Tweed, The History of the Town and Guild. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Burnett, George (ed.) (1886). "vol. IX: 1480–1487". The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Edinburgh. pp. 63/4. 81, 145 & 157. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Record that payments were made to Robert Lauder of The Bass as Captain and Keeper of the castle at Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1480 and 1481.
• Eddington, Alexander (1926). Castles and Historic Homes of the Border (1st ed.). Edinburgh & London. pp. 58–59. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |unused_data= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Hewlings (1993). "Hawksmoor's Brave Designs for the Police". In Bold, J; Cheney, E (eds.). English Architecture Public and Private: Essays for Kerry Downes. London: Hambledon Press. pp. 214–229. ISBN 1-85285-095-7.

 وصلات خارجية

• Official Berwick-upon-Tweed tourist information
• Explore Berwick
• Visit Northumberland
• The Lowry Trail around the town
• Images and the history of Berwick's shipbuilding
• Tide times for Berwick
• Berwick Town Council
• Alexander Carrick sculptor of Berwick-upon-Tweed war memorial

Photographs

• A photographic tour of Berwick
• Berwick Photos
• Images of the 'Berwick Bounds' English–Scottish border

Articles

• A tale of one town – 2004 BBC news story concerned with a tongue-in-cheek debate about whether Berwick should be part of England or Scotland.
• The Scotsman: We can learn a lot from Scotland's "lost limb"