Pallinsburn, Northumberland
Historical Description
Pallinsburn, an estate taking its name from a brook that runs through it, in Ford parish, Northumberland, near the river Till and Flodden Field, 2½ miles E by S of Cornhill. It is said that the brook which bears the name of Pallinsburn was called after Paulinus, who baptised his Northumbrian converts here. Pallinsburn is the property of the Askew-Robertson family. The house stands in a park of 70 acres,. a little N of Flodden Field, where the famous battle was fought in 1513.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Pallinsburn 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: