Kielder, Northumberland
Historical Description
Kielder, a property of the Duke of Northumberland, on the NW border of Northumberland, among the Cheviot moors, with a burn of its own name running to the North Tyne, and a station on the North British railway. It has a post and telegraph office at the station, under Newcastle; money order office, Plashetts; and contains a shooting-lodge of the Duke of Northumberland-a modern edifice in the Gothic style, called Kielder Castle.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Kielder are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers related to Northumberland online: