Swinhoe, Northumberland
Historical Description
Swinhoe, a township in Beadnell ecclesiastical parish, Bamburgh parish, Northumberland, 2 miles from Chathill station on the N.E.R., and 7 ESE of Belford. It has a post office under Chathill (R.S.O.); money order office, Beadnell; telegraph office, Chathill. Acreage, 1574 of land and 55 of water and foreshore; population, 126. The Duke of Northumberland is lord of the manor.
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 Swinhoe from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Swinhoe 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: