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Bellingham is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, to the northwest of Newcastle upon Tyne and is situated on the Hareshaw Burn at its confluence with the River North Tyne. The Heritage Centre is the local museum. It has exhibitions on the Border Counties Railway, the Border reivers, mining, farming, the photography of W P Collier, and the Stannersburn Smithy. It has a database of local family names and one of old photographs. It also holds special exhibitions of historical or artistic interest, and readings and performances by poets, storytellers, musicians and dancers. From 1735 the parish rectors at Bellingham were under the patronage of the Governors of Greenwich Hospital. The Governors stipulated that the rectors were to be graduates of Oxford or Cambridge and naval chaplains. Bellingham Rectory was one of six such rectories in the Simonburn area. The population, according to the UK census of 2011, was 1,334. Bellingham was originally a chapelry in the ancient parish of Simonburn, but became a ancient parish itself in 1811. As an ancient parish it included the townships of Charlton (East and West), Leemailing, Nook and Tarretburn. From 1894 it was part of Bellingham Rural District. In 1958 Bellingham ceased to be a civil parish when it was absorbed into the civil parish of Tarset. The townships of Leemailing, Nook and Tarretburn were each made into a civil parish in 1866, but all lost that status in 1886 and were absorbed back into Bellingham. They have all been redirected here. East Charlton and West Charlton continue to exist as a single civil parish named Charlton. [edit] LeemailingA Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Leemailing from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
[edit] NookA Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Nook from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
[edit] TarretburnA Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Tarretburn from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
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