Lesbury, Northumberland

Historical Description

Lesbury, a village, a township, and a parish in Northumberland. The village stands on the river Aine, half a mile N of Alnmouth railway station and 3½ miles E by S of Alnwick, and has a neat stone bridge over the Aine and a post and money order office (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Alnmouth. The township contains also the hamlets of Bilton, Hawkhill, and Wooden. Acreage, 4035 of land, besides 129 of water and foreshore; population, 943; of the ecclesiastical parish, 929. The parish includes also the township of Ainmouth, which was formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1877. The manor belongs to the Duke of Northumberland. There are a large corn-mill and a timber-yard. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle-on-Tyne; gross value, £230 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Northumberland. The church is ancient, was restored in 1846, and has a tower. There is a Primrose League Club, opened in 1887, containing library, reading and billiard rooms, &c.

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.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Lesbury from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Lesbury 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