Great and Little Whittington, Northumberland

Historical Description

Whittington, Great and Little, two townships in Corbridge parish, Northumberland, 7 and 6½ miles NE of Hexham, and from 4 to 5½ from Corbridge station on the N.E.R. There is a post office of the name of Whittington under Corbridge (R.S.O.); money order office, Matfen; telegraph office, Stamfordham. Acreage, 1494 and 362; population, 221 and 14. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Great Whittington.

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Great and Little Whittington 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