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 Introduction
Most visitors to Northumberland will know of the grim and
bloody history of this Border county, but seldom will they
receive so vivid an impression of its reality as at Preston
Pele Tower. Some rooms have been furnished as they might
have been in the fourteenth century, and there are
fascinating displays and information about the life of the
Border reivers.
History
The Preston pele tower, which is owned by GJ Baker Cresswell, was built between 1392 and 1399, when warfare
between England and Scotland was endemic. At the time of
Agincourt (1415) it was one of 78 Pele Towers in
Northumberland. Its owners included Sir Guiscard Harbottle,
who was slain fighting against James IV at the battle of
Flodden in 1513, the conflict that brought Mary, Queen of
Scots to the Scottish throne.
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