1402. In a plain, near Wooler, is a stone pillar denoting the ground where 10,000 Scots, under earl Douglas, on Holyrood day, had a great overthrow, by Henry lord Percy and George earl of March. Douglas had entered England about the middle of August, and plundered the country as far as Newcastle. On his return to Scotland he was intercepted at Homeldon by earl Percy, and, though advantageously posted on the eminence, found it necessary to engage on this plain ; the battle was so bloody that the lands gained the name of Redriggs, from the slaughter with which they were stained. Among the prisoners were the earls of Fife, Murray, Angus, Athol, Orkney, and Monteith, the lords Montgomery and Erskine, and about 80 knights. Douglas received five wounds and lost an eye. Being hotly pursued, in the flight 500 Scots were drowned in the Tweed: the most of their army on this fatal day dying or being prisoners.

From: T Fordyce, J. Sykes. Local records; or, Historical register of remarkable events which have occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Berwick-upon-Tweed..., published 1867

The Alnwick to Coldstream (Cornhill) Railway was opened on the 5th of September 1887. The railway was built by the North Eastern Railway to link it's Kelso line to its Alnwick Branch. "Coldstream Station" was located in nearby Cornhill. Other stations on the line were at Mindrum, Kirknewton, Akeld, Wooler, Ilderton, Wooperton, Hedgeley, Glanton, Whittingham, Edlingham, and Alnwick.

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