Hawkwell, Northumberland
Historical Description
Hawkwell, a hamlet and a township in Stamfordham parish, Northumberland, on the river Pont, over which a bridge has been built connecting this place with Stamfordham, 11 miles NE of Hexham. Post town, Newcastle; money order and telegraph office, Stamfordham. Acreage, 592; population, 128.
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 | Stamfordham | |
Poor Law union | Castle ward | |
Ward | Tindale |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hawkwell from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hawkwell 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: