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Bamburgh , village, Northumberland, NE England, on the North Sea. It was the capital of ancient Bernicia and for a time of Northumbria . In the 6th cent. a castle was erected above a tall cliff on the site of a Roman fort. Restored in the 18th cent., it is still used as a residence and contains the 14,000-volume Crewe Library. Bamburgh is the birthplace of Grace Darling.

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Bamburgh Northum. Bebbanburge c.710–20. ‘Stronghold of a queen called Bebbe’. OE pers. name + burh.

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