page_title: Swarland
section_title: Landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: Swarland / Landmarks
caption_attribution_description: English: Overgrass Tower The remains of this listed building. The Overgrass tower, view taken from inside the vaulted ground floor, looking out.
context_page_description: Swarland is a small modern village in the county of Northumberland, England, situated about 7 miles south of the market town of Alnwick and 25 miles north of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. Swarland's 'village rival' is Felton. Swarland is the highest settlement between London and Edinburgh.
context_section_description: Swarland Old Hall is a small 17th-century country house and is a Grade II* listed building. The house which has a four-bay south front and two storeys with attics was built in the late 17th century and incorporates fabric of earlier properties. The east front is notable for its castellated full height screen wall with three blind Gothic arches.
  A railed monument nearby (Grade II listed) records the death of William Haslerigg in 1681. His brother and heir was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1698.
  A little over a mile to the west of the village, by the Swarland Burn, are the ruins of Overgrass Tower, a medieval tower house dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century.
caption: Overgrass Tower
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