It is about 11 miles (18 km) to the west of the county town of Morpeth at the junction of the B6342 and B6343 roads.

The village was gifted along with the Wallington Estate to the National Trust by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan in 1942, the first donation of its kind.

Cambo was formerly a township and chapelry in Hartburn parish,[4] from 1866 Cambo was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1955 and merged with Wallington Demesne.

[5] Capability Brown, the 18th-century landscape gardener, was educated at the village school.

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