Cowpen, Northumberland

Historical Description

Cowpen, a village and a township in Horton parochial chapelry, Blyth parish, Northumberland, at the mouth of the river Blyth, 1 mile W by N of Blyth, and 1 from Bebside station on the N.E.R., with a post office, of the name of Cowpen, under Bebside (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Blyth. The township includes the villages of Cowpen, Cowpen Quay, Crofton, and Waterloo. Acreage, 1738; population, 12,982. The principal industries are shipbuilding, glass bottle making, and there are also extensive collieries and sawmills. Cowpen Hall is the seat; of the Sidney family. There is a Roman Catholic chapel, and a mission chapel connected with the parish church oi Horton.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Cowpen from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cowpen, or Coopen)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Cowpen 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:

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