Broom Park, Northumberland
Historical Description
Broom-Park, a township in Edlingham parish, Northumberland, situated on the river Ain, 5½ miles W by S of Alnwick, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Glanton. Acreage, 471; population, 50.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Northumberland | |
Civil parish | Edlingham | |
Poor Law union | Alnwick | |
Ward | Coquetdale |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Broom Park from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Broom-Park)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Broom Park are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- 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: