Place:Duddo, Northumberland, England

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Duddo is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Berwick on Tweed.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Duddo from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"DUDDO, a township and a chapelry in Norham parish, Northumberland. The township lies 3 miles SSW of Norham [railway] station. Acres: 1,651. Population: 311. Houses: 56.

"Grindon-Rigg here was the scene of a victory by the English over the Scots in 1558; and it has some memorials of the battle, and a small Druidical circle and a barrow. The chapelry was constituted in 1866. Population: about 1,000. The living is a vicarage. Value: £340. The church is good."

Duddo was a township in the parish of Norhamshire within the county of Durham until 1844, subsequently in Northumberland. It became a separate civil parish in 1866. From 1894 until 1974 it was part of Norham and Islandshires Rural District. In 1955 it absorbed the parishes of Grindon and Felkington. In 1974 rural districts were abolished and Duddo became part of the Berwick upon Tweed District until 2009 when Northumberland became a unitary authority.

Grindon Rigg or Grindon Ridge mentioned in Wilson's Gazetteer was absorbed into Duddo in 1878. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)

Research Tips

• Northumberland Archives previously known as Northumberland Collections Service and Northumberland County Record Office. Now based within Woodhorn Museum in Ashington and providing free access to numerous records for local and family historians alike.

Full postal address: Museum and Northumberland Archives, Queen Elizabeth II Country Park, Ashington, Northumberland, NE63 9YF; Phone: 01670 624455

There is a branch office in Berwick upon Tweed.

• Northumberland and Durham FHS covers both Northumberland and County Durham. The Family History Society have a research centre in Percy House in central Newcastle upon Tyne (full address on website), open Monday to Friday from 10 am to 4 pm. Browse the website to see what else the society can provide.
• Further information from GENUKI
• Ordnance Survey map of Northumberland 1832 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time. This map includes the boundaries of the various Wards (or "hundreds") in existence at that time.
• Ordnance Survey map of Northumberland 1900 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
• Ordnance Survey map of Northumberland 1944 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
• English Jurisdictions 1851, a parish finding aid provided by FamilySearch, particularly helpful in large towns and cities.
• Unfortunately, there is no Victoria County History for Northumberland.