Thornton, Northumberland
Historical Description
Thornton, a township in Norham parish, Northumberland, 4½ miles SW of Berwick-upon-Tweed town and railway station. Post town, Berwick; money order and telegraph office, Norham (R.S.O.) Acreage, 1375; population, 108.
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 | Norham | |
Poor Law union | Berwick-upon-Tweed |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Thornton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Thornton 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: