1.02022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow's Research Bloghttps://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022Marinahttps://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022/blog/author/admin/<strong>Morpeth</strong><em>, Living amid the woods and waters...</em> <span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">A Coaching Stop on the London-Edinburgh route which crossed the ‘moors-path’ Alternatively called the </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">`Murder Path' from the times of the <a href="http://www.sorbie.net/border_reivers.htm" target="_blank">border reivers</a> (basically robber barons) (1400-1600). Somewhat akin to the Wild West. </span></span> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="232" caption="1500's woodcut from John Skelton's 'Ballade of the Scottyshe Kynge'"]<img src="http://www.sorbie.net/Carving.jpg" alt="1500s woodcut from John Skeltons Ballade of the Scottyshe Kynge" width="232" height="279" />[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="466" caption="Unwilling host of the 2008 floods"]<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/Bridge_Street_under_water_6_September_2008.JPG" alt="Unwilling host of the 2008 floods" width="466" height="300" />[/caption] <p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-530" title="Floods in Morpeth" src="https://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022//wp-content/uploads/2009/04/809_07_4252-floods-in-morpeth_web.jpg" alt="Floods in Morpeth" width="458" height="307" /></p>rich