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Berwick-upon-Tweed [] (, ) is a town in the county of Northumberland. It is the northernmost town in England. It is located south of the Scottish border, at the mouth of the River Tweed on the east coast. It is about east-south east of Edinburgh, north of Newcastle upon Tyne and north of London.
The United Kingdom Census 2011 recorded Berwick's population as 12,043. A civil parish and town council were created in 2008.
Berwick was founded as an Anglo-Saxon settlement during the time of the Kingdom of Northumbria, which was annexed by England in the 10th century. The area was for more than 400 years central to historic border wars between the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, and several times possession of Berwick changed hands between the two kingdoms. The last time it changed hands was when England retook it in 1482. Berwick remains a traditional market town and also has some notable architectural features, in particular its medieval town walls, its Elizabethan ramparts and Britain's earliest barracks buildings (1717–21 by Nicholas Hawksmoor for the Board of Ordnance).
Berwick-upon-Tweed is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK parliament by an elected Member of Parliament (MP). Since 2015 this MP has been Anne-Marie Trevelyan of the Conservative Party who replaced the longest serving Liberal Democrat MP Sir Alan Beith who stood down prior to the 2015 election.
Places known as Berwick-upon-Tweed include:
- the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, within
- the local government district and borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed, within
- the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in the county of Northumberland, England.