Place:Northumberland, England

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NameNorthumberland
Alt namesNBLsource: Curious Fox: UK Counties and Shires [online] (2002). accessed 16 Dec 2002
Norhumberlandsource: Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (1998)
Northdsource: Royal Mail: PAF Digest [online] (2002) accessed 16 Dec 2002
Northumsource: Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999) xviii
Nthumbsource: BIAB Online (1999-2000) accessed 16 Dec 2002; UK Counties and Regions Abbreviations [web site] (1997-98) accessed 16 Dec 2002
TypeHistoric county, Administrative county, Modern county
Coordinates55.169°N 1.687°W
Located inEngland
See alsoTyne and Wear, Englandunitary authority which replaced Northumberland in 1974
Contained Places
Borough (county)
Newcastle upon Tyne ( - 1974 )
Tynemouth ( - 1974 )
Borough (municipal)
Berwick upon Tweed
Blyth ( 1906 - 1974 )
Morpeth
Wallsend ( 100 - 1974 )
Whitley Bay ( - 1974 )
Castle
Prudhoe Castle ( - 1910 )
Chapelry
Allendale
Alnmouth
Ancroft ( 1844 - )
Beadnell
Bellingham
Benwell ( - 1974 )
Birtley
Blanchland
Brinkburn
Byker ( - 1974 )
Carham
Cornhill on Tweed ( 1844 - )
Cramlington ( - 1935 )
Dalton ( - 1955 )
Doddington
Earsdon (near North Shields) ( - 1974 )
Falstone
Gosforth ( - 1974 )
Greenhead
Halton
Haydon
Hebron
Horton ( - 1920 )
Humshaugh
Kyloe ( 1844 - )
Longhoughton
Lowick
Lucker
Mickley
Netherwitton
Newbrough
Newcastle upon Tyne All Saints ( - 1914 )
Newcastle upon Tyne St. Andrew ( - 1914 )
Newcastle upon Tyne St. John ( - 1914 )
Newton ( - 1955 )
Rennington
Rock
South Charlton
Sugley ( - 1935 )
Tweedmouth
Ulgham
Walker ( - 1974 )
Wark on Tyne
West Allen ( 1897 - )
Whitley Bay ( - 1974 )
Widdrington
Willington ( 1974 - )
Civil parish
Abberwick ( - 1955 )
Acklington Park ( - 1955 )
Acklington
Acomb
Acton and Old Felton
Adderstone with Lucker ( 1955 - )
Adderstone ( - 1955 )
Akeld
Allendale
Alnham
Alnmouth
Alnwick
Alwinton
Amble
Ancroft ( 1844 - )
Anick
Ashington and Sheepwash
Ashington ( 1896 - )
Aydon Castle ( - 1955 )
Aydon
Backworth ( - 1974 )
Bamburgh Castle
Bamburgh
Bardon Mill ( 1955 - )
Barrow ( - 1995 )
Bassington ( - 1955 )
Bavington
Beadnell
Beanley ( - 1955 )
Bearl
Bebside
Belford ( 1844 - )
Bellingham
Bellister ( - 1955 )
Belsay
Benridge ( - 1955 )
Benwell ( - 1974 )
Berwick Hill ( - 1955 )
Berwick upon Tweed
Bewick ( 1955 - )
Bickerton ( - 1955 )
Biddlestone
Bingfield ( - 1955 )
Birling ( - 1955 )
Birtley
Bitchfield ( - 1955 )
Black Callerton ( - 1955 )
Black Carts with Ryehill
Black Heddon ( - 1955 )
Blanchland
Blenkinsopp
Blyth ( 1906 - 1974 )
Bockenfield
Bolam Vicarage ( - 1955 )
Bolam
Bolton ( - 1955 )
Bothal Demesne ( 1866 - 1935 )
Bothal ( - 1866 )
Bowsden ( 1955 - )
Bradford (near Morpeth)
Bradford in Bamburgh
Brandon ( - 1955 )
Branton ( - 1955 )
Branxton
Brenkley ( - 1974 )
Brinkburn
Broome Park ( - 1955 )
Broomhaugh and Riding ( 1955 - )
Broomhaugh ( - 1955 )
Broomley and Stocksfield ( 1866 - )
Brotherwick
Broxfield ( - 1955 )
Brunswick ( 1955 - 1974 )
Budle
Bullers Green ( - 1888 )
Bullocks Hall ( - 1955 )
Burradon (near Rothbury)
Burradon in Tyneside ( - 1974 )
Burton
Butterlaw ( - 1974 )
Byker ( - 1974 )
Bywell St. Andrew ( - 1887 )
Bywell St. Peter ( - 1887 )
Bywell ( 1887 - )
Caistron
Callaly and Yetlington
Cambo ( - 1955 )
Camperdown ( - 1974 )
Capheaton
Carham
Carrycoats ( - 1955 )
Cartington
Causey Park ( - 1955 )
Charlton
Chathill
Chatton
Cheeseburn Grange ( - 1955 )
Chevington
Chillingham
Chirdon
Chirton ( - 1974 )
Chollerton
Clarewood
Clennell
Coanwood
Coatyards ( - 1955 )
Cocklaw ( - 1955 )
Cockle Park ( - 1955 )
Coldcoats ( - 1955 )
Coldsmouth and Thompsons Walls
Corbridge
Cornhill on Tweed ( 1844 - )
Corridge
Corsenside
Coupland ( - 1955 )
Cowpen
Coxlodge ( - 1974 )
Cramlington ( - 1935 )
Craster
Crawley ( - 1955 )
Cresswell
Crookhouse ( - 1955 )
Cullercoates ( - 1974 )
Dalton ( - 1955 )
Darras Hall
Deanham ( - 1955 )
Debdon ( - 1955 )
Denwick ( 1894 - )
Detchant
Dilston ( - 1955 )
Dinnington ( - 1974 )
Ditchburn ( - 1955 )
Doddington
Doxford
Duddo ( 1844 - )
Dueshill ( - 1889 )
Dukes Hagg ( - 1955 )
Dunstan ( - 1955 )
Eachwick
Earle
Earsdon (near Morpeth) ( - 1955 )
Earsdon (near North Shields) ( - 1974 )
Easington ( - 1955 )
East Brunton
East Denton ( - 1935 )
East Heddon ( - 1955 )
East Lilburn ( - 1955 )
East Matfen ( - 1955 )
East Shaftoe
East Thornton ( - 1955 )
East and West Hartford
Edington ( - 1955 )
Edlingham
Eglingham
Elford
Ellingham
Ellington
Elsdon
Elswick ( - 1974 )
Eltringham ( - 1910 )
Elwick ( 1844 - 1955 )
Elyhaugh ( - 1955 )
Embleton
Eshott ( - 1955 )
Espershields
Ewart
Ewesley
Fairhaugh ( - 1955 )
Fairnley ( - 1955 )
Fallodon ( - 1955 )
Fallowfield ( - 1955 )
Fallowlees ( - 1955 )
Falstone
Farne Islands ( - 1955 )
Farnham ( - 1955 )
Fawdon Clinch and Hartside
Fawdon and Clinch
Fawdon ( - 1974 )
Featherstone
Felkington ( 1844 - 1955 )
Felton
Fenham ( - 1974 )
Fenrother ( - 1955 )
Fenwick (near Hexham)
Fleetham
Flotterton
Ford
Gallow Hill
Glanton ( - 1955 )
Glororum
Gloster Hill
Gosforth ( - 1974 )
Great Bavington
Great Ryle ( - 1955 )
Great Whittington ( - 1955 )
Greenhead
Greenleighton ( - 1955 )
Greens and Glantlees ( - 1955 )
Greys Forest ( - 1955 )
Greystead
Grindon ( 1844 - 1955 )
Guyzance
Hadstone
Hallington ( - 1955 )
Halton Shields ( - 1887 )
Halton
Haltwhistle
Harbottle
Harehope ( - 1955 )
Harlow Hill ( - 1955 )
Harnham
Hartburn Grange ( - 1955 )
Hartburn
Hartington ( - 1955 )
Hartley Burn
Hartley
Harwood ( - 1955 )
Haughton ( - 1955 )
Hauxley
Hawick
Hawkwell ( - 1955 )
Haydon
Hazlerigg ( - 1974 )
Hazon and Hartlaw ( - 1955 )
Healey and Combhill ( - 1955 )
Healey
Heathpool
Heaton ( - 1974 )
Hebron
Heddon on the Wall
Hedgeley
Hedley Woodside ( - 1887 )
Hedley
Henshaw
Hepburn ( - 1955 )
Hepple
Hepscott
Hesley Hurst
Heugh
Hexham
Hexhamshire High Quarter ( 1866 - 1955 )
Hexhamshire Low Quarter ( 1866 - )
Hexhamshire Middle Quarter ( 1866 - 1955 )
Hexhamshire West Quarter ( 1866 - 1955 )
Hexhamshire ( 1955 - )
High Angerton
High Buston ( - 1955 )
High Callerton
High Fotherley
High and Low Brunton ( - 1955 )
High and Low Highlaws ( - 1955 )
High and Low Trewhitt ( - 1955 )
Higham Dykes
Highlaws
Hirst ( - 1914 )
Hollinghill
Holy Island ( 1844 - )
Holystone
Holywell ( - 1974 )
Hoppen
Horncliffe ( 1844 - )
Horsley (near Wylam) ( - 1955 )
Horton Grange ( - 1974 )
Horton ( - 1920 )
Houghton and Close House
Howick
Howtel
Humbleton ( - 1955 )
Humshaugh
Ilderton
Ingoe ( - 1955 )
Ingram Linhope Greenshawhill and Hartside
Ingram Linhope and Greenshawhill ( 1866 - 1955 )
Ingram
Jesmond ( - 1974 )
Kearsley
Kenton ( - 1974 )
Kidland ( - 1955 )
Kielder ( 1955 - )
Kilham
Kirkharle
Kirkhaugh
Kirkheaton
Kirkley ( - 1955 )
Kirknewton
Kirkwhelpington
Knaresdale ( - 1955 )
Knarsdale with Kirkhaugh ( 1955 - )
Kyloe ( 1844 - )
Lambley
Lanton ( - 1955 )
Learchild ( - 1955 )
Lee St. John ( - 1887 )
Lee Ward
Lemmington ( - 1955 )
Lesbury
Lilburn ( 1955 - )
Linbridge ( - 1955 )
Linsheeles ( - 1955 )
Little Bavington ( - 1955 )
Little Callerton
Little Ryle ( - 1955 )
Little Whittington ( - 1955 )
Loanend ( 1844 - 1955 )
Long Horsley
Longbenton ( - 1974 )
Longframlington
Longhirst
Longhoughton
Longridge ( 1844 - 1955 )
Longshaws
Longwitton
Lorbottle ( - 1955 )
Low Angerton ( - 1955 )
Low Buston ( - 1955 )
Lowick
Lucker
Lynemouth
Mason ( - 1974 )
Meldon
Melkridge
Mickley
Middleton Hall
Middleton
Milbourne
Milfield
Mitford
Molesden ( - 1955 )
Monkridge ( - 1955 )
Monks House ( 1844 - )
Monkseaton ( - 1974 )
Morpeth Castle
Morpeth
Morwick
Mount Healey ( - 1955 )
Mousen
Murton ( - 1974 )
Nafferton ( - 1955 )
Nesbit (near Hexham) ( - 1955 )
Nesbit (near Wooler) ( - 1955 )
Netherton ( 1955 - )
Netherwitton
New Bewick ( - 1955 )
Newbiggin by Newburn
Newbiggin by the Sea
Newbiggin in Shotley
Newbrough
Newburn Hall
Newburn ( - 1974 )
Newcastle upon Tyne All Saints ( - 1914 )
Newcastle upon Tyne St. Andrew ( - 1914 )
Newcastle upon Tyne St. John ( - 1914 )
Newham (near Ellingham)
Newham (near Morpeth)
Newlands ( - 1955 )
Newminster Abbey ( - 1935 )
Newsham and South Blyth ( 1866 - 1920 )
Newstead
Newton Park ( - 1955 )
Newton Underwood ( - 1955 )
Newton by the Sea
Newton on the Moor
Newton ( - 1955 )
Newtown (near Rothbury) ( - 1955 )
Newtown (near Wooler) ( - 1955 )
Norham Mains ( 1844 - 1955 )
Norham ( 1844 - 1955 )
North Charlton
North Dissington ( - 1955 )
North Gosforth ( - 1974 )
North Middleton (near Morpeth) ( - 1955 )
North Middleton (near Wooler) ( - 1955 )
North Seaton ( - 1935 )
North Shields ( - 1974 )
North Sunderland
Nunnykirk
Nunriding ( - 1955 )
Ogle
Old Bewick ( - 1955 )
Old Moor ( - 1995 )
Ord ( 1891 - )
Otterburn ( 500 - )
Ouston
Outchester ( - 1955 )
Ovingham
Ovington
Paston ( - 1955 )
Pauperhaugh
Peels
Pegswood
Pigdon ( - 1955 )
Plashetts and Tynehead ( 1866 - 1955 )
Plenmellor with Whitfield ( 1955 - )
Plenmellor
Ponteland
Portgate ( - 1955 )
Powburn
Prendwick ( - 1955 )
Preston (near Alnwick)
Preston (near North Shields) ( - 1974 )
Prestwick
Prudhoe Castle ( - 1910 )
Ratchwood ( - 1955 )
Raw ( - 1955 )
Reaveley ( - 1955 )
Rennington
Riding
Ridley
Riplington
Ritton Coltpark ( - 1955 )
Ritton Whitehouse
River Green ( - 1955 )
Rochester
Rock
Roddam
Roseden ( - 1955 )
Ross ( 1844 - 1955 )
Rothbury
Rothley
Rudchester ( - 1955 )
Ryal
Sandhoe
Scrainwood
Seaton Delaval ( - 1935 )
Seghill ( - 1935 )
Selbys Forest
Sharperton
Shawdon
Sheepwash ( 1896 - 1935 )
Shilbottle
Shilvington
Shipley ( - 1955 )
Shoreston
Shoreswood ( 1844 - 1955 )
Shortflatt
Shotley Low Quarter
Simonburn
Slaley
Smalesmouth ( - 1958 )
Snitter
South Charlton
South Dissington ( - 1955 )
South Gosforth
South Middleton (near Morpeth)
South Middleton (near Wooler) ( - 1955 )
Spindlestone
Spital Hill ( - 1955 )
Spittle (near Hexham) ( - 1955 )
Stamford
Stamfordham
Stannington
Stanton
Stelling ( - 1955 )
Sturton Grange ( - 1955 )
Styford
Sugley ( - 1935 )
Swarland ( - 1955 )
Sweethope
Swinhoe
Tarset West
Tarset ( 1955 - )
Thirlwall
Thirston with Shothaugh
Thirston ( 1955 - )
Thockrington ( - 1955 )
Thornbrough ( - 1955 )
Thorneyburn ( - 1955 )
Thorngrafton
Thornton ( 1844 - 1955 )
Throphill ( - 1955 )
Thropton
Titlington ( - 1955 )
Todburn
Todridge ( - 1955 )
Togstone
Tosson
Tranwell and High Church
Trewick
Tritlington
Troughend ( - 1955 )
Tughall
Tweedmouth
Twizell (near Norham) ( 1844 - 1955 )
Twizell in Morpeth ( - 1955 )
Tynemouth ( - 1974 )
Ulgham
Unthank ( - 1955 )
Walker ( - 1974 )
Walkmill ( - 1955 )
Wall
Wallbottle
Wallington Demesne
Walltown
Walridge ( - 1955 )
Warden
Warenford
Warenton ( - 1955 )
Wark on Tyne
Warkworth
Warton ( - 1955 )
Wellhaugh ( 1866 - 1955 )
Welton ( - 1955 )
West Allen ( 1897 - )
West Brunton
West Denton
West Heddon
West Lilburn ( - 1955 )
West Matfen
West Shaftoe ( - 1955 )
West Thornton ( - 1955 )
Westgate
Westnewton ( - 1955 )
Whalton
Whitchester
Whitfield
Whitley Bay ( - 1974 )
Whitridge ( - 1955 )
Whittingham
Whittington ( 1955 - )
Whittle (near Alnwick) ( - 1955 )
Whittle (near Hexham) ( - 1955 )
Whitton
Whittonstall
Whorlton ( - 1935 )
Widdrington
Willington ( 1974 - )
Wingates ( - 1955 )
Witton Shields ( - 1955 )
Woodhorn Demesne
Woodhorn
Woodhouse
Woodside ( - 1955 )
Wooler
Woolsington ( - 1974 )
Wooperton ( - 1955 )
Wreighill ( - 1955 )
Wylam
Yeavering ( - 1955 )
Deserted settlement
Housesteads
District municipality
Alnwick District ( 1974 - 2009 )
Berwick upon Tweed District ( 1974 - 2009 )
Blyth Valley District ( 1974 - 2009 )
Castle Morpeth District ( 1974 - 2009 )
Tynedale District ( 1974 - 2009 )
Wansbeck District ( 1974 - 2009 )
Extra parochial area
Farne Islands ( - 1955 )
Kidland ( - 1955 )
Kirkheaton
Monks House ( 1844 - )
River Green ( - 1955 )
Former administrative division
Hexhamshire ( 1955 - )
Hamlet
Wark on Tweed
Hundred
Bamburgh Ward
Castle Ward
Coquetdale Ward
Glendale Ward
Islandshire ( 1844 - )
Morpeth Ward
Norhamshire ( 1844 - )
Tynedale Ward
Inhabited place
Ayle
Bardon Mill ( 1955 - )
Baybridge
Beaconhill
Bearsbridge
Beauclerc
Beltingham
Benthall
Bolam West Houses
Bomarsund
Boulmer
Branch End
Bridge End
Broomhill
Brownieside
Butteryhaugh
Bywell ( 1887 - )
Cambois
Carterway Heads
Chesters
Cheswick Buildings
Cheswick
Chollerford
Clifton
Coalcleugh
Collingwood
Colpitts Grange
Crag Lough
Englingham
Guide Post
Killingworth
Marston St. Lawrence
North Seaton Colliery
Painshawfield
Radcliffe
Scremerston Station
Sparty Lea
Stonehaugh
Throckley ( - 1974 )
Warkton
Parish (ancient)
Alnham
Alnwick
Alwinton
Bamburgh
Bedlington ( 1844 - )
Belford ( 1844 - )
Bellingham
Berwick upon Tweed
Bolam
Bothal ( - 1866 )
Branxton
Brinkburn
Bywell St. Andrew ( - 1887 )
Bywell St. Peter ( - 1887 )
Chatton
Chillingham
Chollerton
Corbridge
Corsenside
Dinnington ( - 1974 )
Doddington
Edlingham
Eglingham
Ellingham
Elsdon
Embleton
Falstone
Felton
Ford
Greystead
Haltwhistle
Hartburn
Heddon on the Wall
Hexham
Holy Island ( 1844 - )
Holystone
Howick
Ilderton
Ingram
Kirkhaugh
Kirknewton
Kirkwhelpington
Knaresdale ( - 1955 )
Lambley
Lee St. John ( - 1887 )
Long Horsley
Longbenton ( - 1974 )
Longhoughton
Meldon
Mitford
Morpeth
Newburn ( - 1974 )
Norham ( 1844 - 1955 )
Ovingham
Ponteland
Rothbury
Shilbottle
Simonburn
Slaley
Stamfordham
Stannington
Thockrington ( - 1955 )
Tynemouth ( - 1974 )
Warden
Wark on Tyne
Warkworth
Whalton
Whitfield
Whittingham
Woodhorn
Wooler
Registration district
Alnwick Registration District
Belford Registration District ( 1837 - 1936 )
Bellingham Registration District ( 1837 - 1936 )
Berwick Registration District ( 1837 - 1936 )
Castle Ward Registration District ( 1837 - 1936 )
Glendale Registration District ( 1837 - 1936 )
Haltwhistle Registration District ( 1837 - 1936 )
Hexham Registration District ( 1837 - 1936 )
Morpeth Registration District ( 1837 - 1936 )
Newcastle upon Tyne Registration District ( 1837 - 1936 )
Northumberland Central Registration District ( 1937 - 2008 )
Northumberland North First Registration District ( 1937 - 2008 )
Northumberland North Second Registration District ( 1937 - 2008 )
Northumberland Registration District ( 2008 - )
Northumberland South Registration District ( 1937 - 2008 )
Northumberland West Registration District ( 1937 - 2008 )
Rothbury Registration District ( 1837 - 1936 )
Tynemouth Registration District ( 1837 - 1936 )
Rural district
Alnwick Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Belford Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Bellingham Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Castle Ward Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Glendale Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Haltwhistle Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Hexham Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Morpeth Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Newcastle Rural ( 1912 - 1974 )
Norham and Islandshires Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Rothbury Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Tynemouth Rural ( 1894 - 1912 )
Settlement
Choppington ( 1844 - )
Suburb
Jesmond ( - 1974 )
Walker ( - 1974 )
Township
Abberwick ( - 1955 )
Acklington Park ( - 1955 )
Acklington
Acomb
Acton and Old Felton
Adderstone ( - 1955 )
Akeld
Amble
Anick
Ashington and Sheepwash
Aydon Castle ( - 1955 )
Aydon
Bamburgh Castle
Barrow ( - 1995 )
Bassington ( - 1955 )
Beanley ( - 1955 )
Bearl
Bebside
Belford ( 1844 - )
Bellister ( - 1955 )
Belsay
Benridge ( - 1955 )
Berwick Hill ( - 1955 )
Bickerton ( - 1955 )
Biddlestone
Bingfield ( - 1955 )
Birling ( - 1955 )
Bitchfield ( - 1955 )
Black Callerton ( - 1955 )
Black Carts with Ryehill
Black Heddon ( - 1955 )
Blanchland
Blenkinsopp
Bockenfield
Bolam Vicarage ( - 1955 )
Bolam
Bolton ( - 1955 )
Bothal Demesne ( 1866 - 1935 )
Bradford (near Morpeth)
Bradford in Bamburgh
Brandon ( - 1955 )
Branton ( - 1955 )
Brenkley ( - 1974 )
Broome Park ( - 1955 )
Broomhaugh ( - 1955 )
Broomley and Stocksfield ( 1866 - )
Brotherwick
Broxfield ( - 1955 )
Budle
Bullers Green ( - 1888 )
Bullocks Hall ( - 1955 )
Burradon (near Rothbury)
Burradon in Tyneside ( - 1974 )
Burton
Butterlaw ( - 1974 )
Caistron
Callaly and Yetlington
Cambo ( - 1955 )
Capheaton
Carrycoats ( - 1955 )
Cartington
Causey Park ( - 1955 )
Charlton
Chathill
Cheeseburn Grange ( - 1955 )
Chevington
Chirdon
Chirton ( - 1974 )
Choppington ( 1844 - )
Clarewood
Clennell
Coanwood
Coatyards ( - 1955 )
Cocklaw ( - 1955 )
Cockle Park ( - 1955 )
Coldcoats ( - 1955 )
Coldsmouth and Thompsons Walls
Corridge
Coupland ( - 1955 )
Cowpen
Coxlodge ( - 1974 )
Craster
Crawley ( - 1955 )
Cresswell
Crookhouse ( - 1955 )
Cullercoates ( - 1974 )
Dalton ( - 1955 )
Darras Hall
Deanham ( - 1955 )
Debdon ( - 1955 )
Detchant
Dilston ( - 1955 )
Dinnington ( - 1974 )
Ditchburn ( - 1955 )
Doxford
Duddo ( 1844 - )
Dueshill ( - 1889 )
Dukes Hagg ( - 1955 )
Dunstan ( - 1955 )
Eachwick
Earle
Earsdon (near Morpeth) ( - 1955 )
Easington ( - 1955 )
East Brunton
East Denton ( - 1935 )
East Heddon ( - 1955 )
East Lilburn ( - 1955 )
East Matfen ( - 1955 )
East Shaftoe
East Thornton ( - 1955 )
East and West Hartford
Edington ( - 1955 )
Elford
Ellington
Elswick ( - 1974 )
Eltringham ( - 1910 )
Elwick ( 1844 - 1955 )
Elyhaugh ( - 1955 )
Eshott ( - 1955 )
Espershields
Ewart
Ewesley
Fairhaugh ( - 1955 )
Fairnley ( - 1955 )
Fallodon ( - 1955 )
Fallowfield ( - 1955 )
Fallowlees ( - 1955 )
Farnham ( - 1955 )
Fawdon Clinch and Hartside
Fawdon ( - 1974 )
Featherstone
Felkington ( 1844 - 1955 )
Felton
Fenham ( - 1974 )
Fenrother ( - 1955 )
Fenwick (near Hexham)
Fleetham
Flotterton
Gallow Hill
Glanton ( - 1955 )
Glororum
Gloster Hill
Great Bavington
Great Ryle ( - 1955 )
Great Whittington ( - 1955 )
Greenleighton ( - 1955 )
Greens and Glantlees ( - 1955 )
Greys Forest ( - 1955 )
Greystead
Grindon ( 1844 - 1955 )
Guyzance
Hadstone
Hallington ( - 1955 )
Halton Shields ( - 1887 )
Halton
Harbottle
Harehope ( - 1955 )
Harlow Hill ( - 1955 )
Harnham
Hartburn Grange ( - 1955 )
Hartburn
Hartington ( - 1955 )
Hartley Burn
Hartley
Harwood ( - 1955 )
Haughton ( - 1955 )
Hauxley
Hawick
Hawkwell ( - 1955 )
Hazon and Hartlaw ( - 1955 )
Healey and Combhill ( - 1955 )
Healey
Heathpool
Heaton ( - 1974 )
Heddon on the Wall
Hedgeley
Hedley Woodside ( - 1887 )
Hedley
Henshaw
Hepburn ( - 1955 )
Hepple
Hepscott
Hesley Hurst
Heugh
Hexhamshire High Quarter ( 1866 - 1955 )
Hexhamshire Low Quarter ( 1866 - )
Hexhamshire Middle Quarter ( 1866 - 1955 )
Hexhamshire West Quarter ( 1866 - 1955 )
High Angerton
High Buston ( - 1955 )
High Callerton
High Fotherley
High and Low Brunton ( - 1955 )
High and Low Highlaws ( - 1955 )
High and Low Trewhitt ( - 1955 )
Higham Dykes
Highlaws
Hirst ( - 1914 )
Hollinghill
Holywell ( - 1974 )
Hoppen
Horncliffe ( 1844 - )
Horsley (near Wylam) ( - 1955 )
Horton Grange ( - 1974 )
Houghton and Close House
Howtel
Humbleton ( - 1955 )
Humshaugh
Ingoe ( - 1955 )
Ingram Linhope Greenshawhill and Hartside
Ingram Linhope and Greenshawhill ( 1866 - 1955 )
Jesmond ( - 1974 )
Kearsley
Kenton ( - 1974 )
Kilham
Kirkharle
Kirkley ( - 1955 )
Lanton ( - 1955 )
Learchild ( - 1955 )
Lee Ward
Lemmington ( - 1955 )
Lesbury
Linbridge ( - 1955 )
Linsheeles ( - 1955 )
Little Bavington ( - 1955 )
Little Callerton
Little Ryle ( - 1955 )
Little Whittington ( - 1955 )
Loanend ( 1844 - 1955 )
Longframlington
Longhirst
Longridge ( 1844 - 1955 )
Longshaws
Longwitton
Lorbottle ( - 1955 )
Low Angerton ( - 1955 )
Low Buston ( - 1955 )
Lynemouth
Mason ( - 1974 )
Melkridge
Mickley
Middleton Hall
Middleton
Milbourne
Milfield
Mitford
Molesden ( - 1955 )
Monkridge ( - 1955 )
Monkseaton ( - 1974 )
Morpeth Castle
Morpeth
Morwick
Mount Healey ( - 1955 )
Mousen
Murton ( - 1974 )
Nafferton ( - 1955 )
Nesbit (near Hexham) ( - 1955 )
Nesbit (near Wooler) ( - 1955 )
New Bewick ( - 1955 )
Newbiggin by Newburn
Newbiggin by the Sea
Newbiggin in Shotley
Newburn Hall
Newburn ( - 1974 )
Newham (near Ellingham)
Newham (near Morpeth)
Newlands ( - 1955 )
Newminster Abbey ( - 1935 )
Newsham and South Blyth ( 1866 - 1920 )
Newstead
Newton Park ( - 1955 )
Newton Underwood ( - 1955 )
Newton by the Sea
Newton on the Moor
Newton ( - 1955 )
Newtown (near Rothbury) ( - 1955 )
Newtown (near Wooler) ( - 1955 )
Norham Mains ( 1844 - 1955 )
North Charlton
North Dissington ( - 1955 )
North Gosforth ( - 1974 )
North Middleton (near Morpeth) ( - 1955 )
North Middleton (near Wooler) ( - 1955 )
North Seaton ( - 1935 )
North Shields ( - 1974 )
North Sunderland
Nunnykirk
Nunriding ( - 1955 )
Ogle
Old Bewick ( - 1955 )
Old Moor ( - 1995 )
Otterburn ( 500 - )
Ouston
Outchester ( - 1955 )
Ovington
Paston ( - 1955 )
Pauperhaugh
Peels
Pegswood
Pigdon ( - 1955 )
Plenmellor
Portgate ( - 1955 )
Powburn
Prendwick ( - 1955 )
Preston (near Alnwick)
Preston (near North Shields) ( - 1974 )
Prestwick
Prudhoe Castle ( - 1910 )
Ratchwood ( - 1955 )
Raw ( - 1955 )
Reaveley ( - 1955 )
Riding
Ridley
Riplington
Ritton Coltpark ( - 1955 )
Ritton Whitehouse
Rochester
Roddam
Roseden ( - 1955 )
Ross ( 1844 - 1955 )
Rothley
Rudchester ( - 1955 )
Ryal
Sandhoe
Scrainwood
Seaton Delaval ( - 1935 )
Seghill ( - 1935 )
Selbys Forest
Sharperton
Shawdon
Shilvington
Shipley ( - 1955 )
Shoreston
Shoreswood ( 1844 - 1955 )
Shortflatt
Shotley Low Quarter
Smalesmouth ( - 1958 )
Snitter
South Charlton
South Dissington ( - 1955 )
South Gosforth
South Middleton (near Morpeth)
South Middleton (near Wooler) ( - 1955 )
Spindlestone
Spital Hill ( - 1955 )
Spittle (near Hexham) ( - 1955 )
Stamford
Stanton
Stelling ( - 1955 )
Sturton Grange ( - 1955 )
Styford
Swarland ( - 1955 )
Sweethope
Swinhoe
Tarset West
Thirlwall
Thirston with Shothaugh
Thornbrough ( - 1955 )
Thorneyburn ( - 1955 )
Thorngrafton
Thornton ( 1844 - 1955 )
Throphill ( - 1955 )
Thropton
Titlington ( - 1955 )
Todburn
Todridge ( - 1955 )
Togstone
Tosson
Tranwell and High Church
Trewick
Tritlington
Troughend ( - 1955 )
Tughall
Twizell (near Norham) ( 1844 - 1955 )
Twizell in Morpeth ( - 1955 )
Unthank ( - 1955 )
Walkmill ( - 1955 )
Wall
Wallbottle
Wallington Demesne
Walltown
Walridge ( - 1955 )
Warenford
Warenton ( - 1955 )
Wark on Tweed
Warton ( - 1955 )
Wellhaugh ( 1866 - 1955 )
Welton ( - 1955 )
West Brunton
West Denton
West Heddon
West Lilburn ( - 1955 )
West Matfen
West Shaftoe ( - 1955 )
West Thornton ( - 1955 )
Westgate
Westnewton ( - 1955 )
Whitchester
Whitridge ( - 1955 )
Whittle (near Alnwick) ( - 1955 )
Whittle (near Hexham) ( - 1955 )
Whitton
Whittonstall
Whorlton ( - 1935 )
Willington ( 1974 - )
Wingates ( - 1955 )
Witton Shields ( - 1955 )
Woodhorn Demesne
Woodhouse
Woodside ( - 1955 )
Woolsington ( - 1974 )
Wooperton ( - 1955 )
Wreighill ( - 1955 )
Wylam
Yeavering ( - 1955 )
Urban district
Alnwick
Amble
Ashington ( 1896 - )
Bedlington ( 1844 - )
Benwell and Fenham ( - 1974 )
Benwell ( - 1974 )
Blyth ( 1906 - 1974 )
Camperdown ( - 1974 )
Cowpen
Cramlington ( - 1935 )
Earsdon (near North Shields) ( - 1974 )
Elswick ( - 1974 )
Gosforth ( - 1974 )
Heaton ( - 1974 )
Hexham
Longbenton ( - 1974 )
Newbiggin by the Sea
Newburn ( - 1974 )
Prudhoe
Rothbury
Seaton Delaval ( - 1935 )
Seaton Valley ( 1935 - 1974 )
Seghill ( - 1935 )
Walker ( - 1974 )
Weetslade ( - 1935 )
Whitley and Monkseaton ( 1894 - 1954 )
Willington ( 1974 - )
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Northumberland is a county in Northern England, one of two counties in England which border with Scotland. Notable landmarks in the county include Alnwick Castle, Bamburgh Castle, Hadrian's Wall and Hexham Abbey.

It is bordered by land on three sides; by the Scottish Borders region to the north, County Durham and Tyne and Wear to the south, and Cumbria to the west. The fourth side is the North Sea, with a along its coastline.Cite error 4; Invalid call; no input specified to the east. A predominantly rural county with a landscape of moorland and farmland, a large area is part of Northumberland National Park. The area has been the site of a number of historic battles with Scotland.

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History

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The land has long been an English frontier zone, with it being currently bordered to the north by Scotland. Northumberland has a rich prehistory with many instances of rock art, hillforts such as Yeavering Bell, and stone circles such as the Goatstones and Duddo Five Stones. Most of the area was occupied by the Brythonic-Celtic Votadini people, with another large tribe, the Brigantes, to the south.

During Roman occupation of Britain, most of the present county lay north of Hadrian's Wall. It was controlled by Rome only for the brief period of its extension of power north to the Antonine Wall. The Roman road Dere Street crosses the county from Corbridge over high moorland west of the Cheviot Hills to Melrose, Scottish Borders. As evidence of its border position through medieval times, Northumberland has more castles than any other county in England, including those at Alnwick, Bamburgh, Dunstanburgh, Newcastle and Warkworth.


Later, the region of present-day Northumberland formed the core of the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia (from about 547), which united with Deira (south of the River Tees) to form the kingdom of Northumbria in the 7th century. The historical boundaries of Northumbria under King Edwin (reigned 616–633) stretched from the Humber in the south to the Forth in the north. After the battle of Nechtansmere its influence north of the Tweed began to decline as the Picts gradually reclaimed the land previously invaded by the Saxon kingdom. In 1018 its northern part, the region between the Tweed and the Forth (including Lothian that contains present-day Edinburgh), was ceded to the Kingdom of Scotland.

Northumberland is often called the "cradle of Christianity" in England because Christianity flourished on Lindisfarne—a tidal island north of Bamburgh, also called Holy Island—after King Oswald of Northumbria (reigned 634–642) invited monks from Iona to come to convert the English. A monastery at Lindisfarne was the centre of production of the Lindisfarne Gospels (around 700). It became the home of St Cuthbert (about 634–687, abbot from about 665), who is buried in Durham Cathedral.

Bamburgh is the historic capital of Northumberland, the royal castle from before the unification of the Kingdoms of England under the monarchs of the House of Wessex in the 10th century.

The Earldom of Northumberland was briefly held by the Scottish royal family by marriage between 1139–1157 and 1215–1217. Scotland relinquished all claims to the region as part of the Treaty of York (1237). The Earls of Northumberland once wielded significant power in English affairs because, as powerful and militaristic Marcher Lords, they had the task of protecting England from Scottish retaliation for English invasions.

Northumberland has a history of revolt and rebellion against the government, as seen in the Rising of the North (1569–1570) against Elizabeth I. These revolts were usually led by the Earls of Northumberland, the Percy family. Shakespeare makes one of the Percys, the dashing Harry Hotspur (1364–1403), the hero of his Henry IV, Part 1. The Percys were often aided in conflict by other powerful Northern families, such as the Nevilles and the Patchetts. The latter were stripped of all power and titles by the victorious Parliamentarians after the English Civil War of 1642–1651. After the Restoration of 1660, the county was a centre for Roman Catholicism in England, as well as a focus of Jacobite support. Northumberland was long a wild county, where outlaws and Border Reivers hid from the law. However, the frequent cross-border skirmishes and accompanying local lawlessness largely subsided after the Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England under King James I and VI in 1603.

Northumberland played a key role in the Industrial Revolution from the 18th century on. Many coal mines operated in Northumberland until the widespread closures in the 1970s and 1980s. Collieries operated at Ashington, Bedlington, Blyth, Choppington, Netherton, Ellington and Pegswood. The region's coalfields fuelled industrial expansion in other areas of Britain, and the need to transport the coal from the collieries to the Tyne led to the development of the first railways. Shipbuilding and armaments manufacture were other important industries before the deindustrialisation of the 1980s.

Northumberland remains largely rural, and is the least-densely populated county in England. In recent years the county has had considerable growth in tourism. Visitors are attracted both to its scenic beauty and its historical sites.

Archaeology

Nearly 2000-year-old Roman boxing gloves were uncovered at Vindolanda in 2017 by the Vindolanda Trust experts, led by Andrew Birley. According to the Guardian, being similar in style and function to the full-hand modern boxing gloves, these two gloves found at Vindolanda look like leather bands date back to 120 AD. It is suggested that, based on their difference from gladiator gloves, warriors using this type of gloves had no purpose to kill each other, and that the gloves probably were used in a sport for promoting fighting skills. The gloves are currently displayed at Vindolanda's museum.

Governance

The four most northerly ancient counties of England – Cumberland, Westmorland, County Durham and Northumberland – were historically divided into administrative units called "wards" instead of "hundreds" or "wapentakes", as in other counties further south. Wards were areas originally organised for military purposes, each centred on a castle. (Source:Wikipedia)

The organization of wards remained in place in an increasingly less organized fashion until the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 and the establishment of Registration Districts in 1837.

At the end of the Victorian era, the Local Government Act 1894 was passed. This created a system of urban and rural districts with elected councils. These, along with the town councils of municipal boroughs created earlier in the century, formed a second tier of local government below the existing county councils. The act also introduced elected parish councils in rural areas.

The Local Government Act 1972 which came into being on 1 April 1974 introduced a pattern of two-tier metropolitan and non-metropolitan county and district councils which remains in use today in large parts of England, although the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986, and both county and district councils have been replaced with unitary authorities in many areas since 1990.

The Local Government Act 1972 also created the administrative county of Tyne and Wear. It covered an area around the mouths of the River Tyne and the River Wear and effectively reduced the size of the counties of Northumberland and Durham. The county boroughs of Tynemouth (which included North Shields, Wallsend and Whitley Bay), and the City of Newcastle upon Tyne were transferred to Tyne and Wear.

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