Chathill, Northumberland
Historical Description
Chathill, a township in Ellingham parish, Northumberland, on the North-Eastern railway, 8¼ miles N of Alnwick. It has a station on the railway and a head post office. Acreage, 437; population, 61. There is a handsome stone drinking fountain, erected in 1887 by Miss Baker Cresswell.
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 | Ellingham | |
Poor Law union | Belford | |
Ward | Bambrough |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Chathill from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Chathill 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: