When travelling on the East Coast mainline, if there's one stretch to stop what you're doing and look out the window, it's between Newcastle and Berwick.
To one side of the track, you have endless fields swaying in the wind, while on the other the waves of the North Sea crash into the Northumberland coast. At one point, you'll notice the spire of a church rising out of a group of buildings on the banks of a river dotted with rowing boats.
That spire is the St John the Baptist Parish Church in Alnmouth, a village named as one of the 20 most beautiful in the UK and Ireland by Conde Nast Traveller.
