Place:


Queens Cave  Northumberland

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Queens Cave like this:

QUEEN'S CAVE, a cave in the S of Northumberland; in Deepden ravine, 2½ miles S of Hexham. It was the hiding-place of Queen Margaret and her son Prince Edward, for several days in 1464, after the battle of Hexham.

Additional information about this locality is available for Hexhamshire

Queens Cave through time

Queens Cave is now part of Tynedale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Tynedale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Queens Cave itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Queens Cave, in Tynedale and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24767

Date accessed: 18th May 2024


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