During the seventh and eighth centuries, Northumberland was the most important of all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. It extended from Bernicia in the north, to Deira in the south and became known as North Humber Land, meaning land north of the Humber.
ED GELDARD is a professional landscape photographer. A former freelancer for the Northern Echo Group, he is a keen walker and contributes to many countryside publications. In 1991 he teamed up with Alfred Wainwright to produce Wainwright in the Limestone Dales, which became an overnight bestseller. Commissioned in 1992 for Wainwright's Tour in the Lake District, winner of the Tullie House prize in the Lakeland Book of the Year Award, he later went on to complete his own best selling book Travels through the Lakes.
