NATIONAL award-winning author Greg Finch returns with a new history of the landscape of Hexhamshire.

Published by the Hexham Local History Society, The Making of the Hexhamshire Landscape shares the results of many years of extensive research, and charts the broad sweep of its history from the last ice age to the present day. 

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Greg, a Hexhamshire resident whose acclaimed 2021 book The Blacketts won the Business Archives Council's annual Wadsworth Prize for outstanding contribution to business history, has a long-standing interest in Hexhamshire's history. 

Hexhamshire is today a quiet and beautiful pastoral corner of the Northumbrian landscape between the Tyne Valley and the North Pennine fells.

However, poised between lowland and highland, it has seen great changes over thousands of years in how people have used its resources and left their mark. 

The book is now available from local bookshops, priced at £15.