Outchester, Northumberland
Historical Description
Outchester, a township in Bambrough parish, Northumberland, on the river Warn, near its outlet into Budle Bay, 2 miles E by S of Belford station on the N.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Belford. Acreage, 1055 of land and 211 of water and foreshore; population, 90. Remains exist of a square British camp, with a double rampart and a wide fosse.
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 | Bambrough | |
| Poor Law union | Belford | |
| Ward | Bambrough |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Outchester from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Outchester)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Outchester 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: