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The modern village grew up around a coaching inn and Otterburn Tower. It was enlarged in the 1950s with the addition of Brierley Gardens, a council estate which was expanded in the 1970s. The village further expanded in the 1990s and 2000s with the new housing development on former farmland at Willow
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stands within a small plantation, half a mile north of the village. Near this spot, on an August evening in 1388, an English army of 8,000 men followed Sir Henry Percy into the battle of Otterburn against the Scots, led by
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being killed, Percy was captured and over a thousand of the English were taken, left dead on the field or slain as they fled. The dead were carried to
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The district of Otterburn also includes Troughend Common. The origins of this name are uncertain; it may not come from Old English but rather the
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The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society
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in 1388 between English and Scottish armies. The engagement, in which the Scots took
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The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland
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Northumberland places with etymologically Brittonic names
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