Fenham (Newcastle St Andrew), Northumberland

Historical Description

Fenham, a township in Newcastle St Andrew parish, Northumberland, 1½ mile NW of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It has a post and money order office of the name of Fenham Road (T.S.O.) under Newcastle; telegraph office, Newcastle. It includes'the hamlets of Corogate. Acreage, 450; population, 163. The manor belonged to the Knights-Templars, was transferred to the Knights-Hospitallers, and passed to the Crown and to the Eiddells.

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 Fenham (Newcastle St Andrew) from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Fenham (Newcastle St Andrew) 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