For 2025, we plan to be in Northumberland, Harry Potter's Wizarding country, for a magical car rally chasing Golden Snitches! It'll be an extended weekend of potions and pistons on the Hogwarts Highway through the Forbidden Forest. The 131 Wizards magical car adventure on the Spellbound Speedway. But enough of the Harry Potter cliches and down to the details: Northumberland is a county in Northeast England, bordering Scotland. In fact we will also venture briefly into Scotland. It is the least-densely populated county in England with wonderful driving roads, plenty to see and do and without too many people to get in the way.
The name of Northumberland is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as "the land north of the Humber". During the Roman occupation of Britain, most of the present county lay north of Hadrian's Wall. It was controlled by Rome only for the brief period of its extension of power north to the Antonine Wall. The Roman Road Dere Street crosses the county from Corbridge over high moorland west of the Cheviot Hills to Melrose, Scottish Borders. As evidence of its border position through medieval times, Northumberland has more castles than any other county in England, including those at Alnwick, Bamburgh, Dunstanburgh, Newcastle and Warkworth. Alnwick castle was used as a stand-in for the exterior and interior of the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter films.
The dates are Friday 23rd to Monday 26th of May, 2025. We are in negotiations with a number of hotels in the area and we hope to announce our base location soon. But for now we need to have an idea of numbers so if you think you will be able to join the magical Fiat 131 Wizzards tour in Northumberand, please complete the form
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