The village and parish of Doddington are on the east side of the Milfield Plain, nearly 3 miles north of the town of Wooler, in the county of Northumberland, England.

Falling within the Northumberland Sandstone Hills, Doddington Moor's highest peak is Dod Law at around 200 metres.

[2] In 1734, the village was described in George Mark's Survey of a Portion of Northumberland[3] as "remarkable for its largeness, the badness of its houses and low situation, and perhaps for the greatest quantities of geese of any in its neighbourhood".

The last tune played, on his deathbed, by the celebrated piper Will Allan, who died near Rothbury in 1779, was Dorrington Lads.

This association with travellers is not surprising, as Doddington is quite close to Kirk Yetholm, the main base of the Border Gypsies.