Bywell St Peter, Northumberland

Historical Description

Bywell-St-Peter, a township and a parish in Northumberland. The township includes part of Bywell village. The parish includes also the townships of East Acomb, westward to Broomley, and extends southward to the West Auckland turnpike road. Post town, Stocksfield (R.S.O., Northumberland). Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 674. Much of the land in the south is high and poor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £280 with residence. Patron, the Archdeacon of Northumberland. The church has a low square tower of the 14th century, evidently added and constructed with a view to warlike defence. It was thoroughly restored in 1873.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Bywell St Peter from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bywell (St. Peter))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers related to Northumberland online:

• Morpeth Herald
• Berwickshire News and General Advertiser
• The Berwick Advertiser
• Alnwick Mercury
• Illustrated Berwick Journal