Whitton, Northumberland
Historical Description
Whitton, a township in Rothbury parish, Northumberland, half a mile S of Rothbury station on the North British railway. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Rothbury. Acreage, 696; population, 64. Whitton Tower was built in the 15th century by one of the Umfravilles, has walls 7 feet thick, corner-turrets, and a dungeon, and is now Rothbury rectory house.
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 | Rothbury | |
Poor Law union | Rothbury | |
Ward | Coquetdale |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Whitton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Whitton 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: