Belford is a village as well as civil parish in Northumberland, England, about halfway in between Alnwick and Berwick-upon-Tweed, a couple of miles inland from the east coast as well as simply off the Great North Road, the A1. At the 2001 census it had a population of 1,055, [1] enhancing to 1,258 at the 2011 Census. Belford is surrounded by abundant pastoral farmland, as well as to the west of the village is located one of the much better rock climbing places in the area, Bowden Doors. Larger market towns have actually slowly changed Belford in importance as well as the area of the station beyond the town itself did nothing to halt a steady decrease in its fortunes given that completion of the 19th century. A lot of the attributes of its heyday have been retained nevertheless.