Belford is a town as well as civil parish in Northumberland, England, about midway between Alnwick and Berwick-upon-Tweed, a couple of miles inland from the east coast and just 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 bordered by abundant pastoral farmland, as well as to the west of the village is located among the much better rock climbing up places in the region, Bowden Doors. Bigger market communities have actually gradually changed Belford in significance and the location of the station beyond the town itself did nothing to stop a gradual decrease in its fortunes because completion of the 19th century. A lot of the functions of its heyday have actually been preserved however.