Bamburgh, Northumberland Family History Guide
Bamburgh is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northumberland.
Other places in the parish include: Hoppen, Glororum, Fowberry, Fleetham, Elford, Burton, Budle, Bradford near Belford, Bradford, Bamburgh Castle, Bambrough Castle, Bamborough with Fowberry, Adderstone, Adderston, Warenton, Warenford, Tughall, Swinhoe, Spindlestone, Spindleston, Shoston, Shorstone, Shoreston, Ratchwood, Outchester, Newstead, Newham near Belford, Newham, Mowson, Mouson, and Mousen.
Alternative names: Bamborough, Bambrough
Parish church: St Aidan
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1762
Nonconformists include: Presbyterian, Wesleyan Methodist
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Parish History
Bambrough
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BAMBROUGH, or Bamborough, a village, a township, a parish, and a ward, in Northumberland. The village stands on the coast, 2 miles NE of Lucker r. station, and 5 E by N of Belford; and has a post office under Belford.
It was a seat of the kings of Northumbria; bore originally the name of Baebbanburg or Bebbanburg, signifying Queen Bebba’s town; was afterwards a market town and a royal burgh, sending two members to parliament; gave name to an extensive district around it, called Bambroughshire; and had churches of St. Oswald and St. Aidan, a cell of Augustinian canons, a house of Blackfriars, a college, and an hospital. It now possesses none of its ancient characters; but has become a retired, pleasant, favourite summer resort for sea-bathing.
The township includes also a place called Fowberry. Acres, 1,242. Pop., 403. Houses, 84.
The parish contains likewise the townships of Bambrough-Castle, Budle, Glororum, Burton, Hoppen, Elford, Shorstone or Shoston, North Sunderland, Beadnell, Tughall, Swinhoe, Fleetham, Newham, Lucker, Adderstone, Bradford, Spindlestone, Outchester, Mouson or Mowson, Warenton, Warenford, Ratchwood, and Newstead; and is in the district of Belford. Acres, 26,234; of which 1,134 are water. Real property, £35,320. Pop., 4,105. Houses, 814. The surface exhibits diversity of feature; and is rich in at once geognostic, antiquarian, and modern interest.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300. Patrons, the Trustees of Bishop Lord Crewe. The church is early English and cruciform, with a western tower; and has an unusually long chancel, with good modern stall-work, three sedilia, an ambrey, and the effigies of a knight.
The chapelries of Beadnell, Lucker, and North Sunderland are separate charges. The ward is about 17 miles long and about 8 miles broad; contains seven parishes; and consists of two divisions. North and South. Acres of North B., 33,421; of South B., 35,842. Pop. of both, 11,244. Houses, 2,222.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Bambrough Castle
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BAMBROUGH CASTLE, a township in Bambrough parish, Northumberland; on the coast, contiguous to Bambrough township, 5 miles E of Belford. Acres, 1,724; of which 1,134 are water. Pop., 38. Houses, 5.
A famous castle was founded here, about the year 554, by Ida, first king of Northumbria, consort of Queen Bebba; and gave rise to the adjacent town. The site of it is a rugged, triangular, basaltic rock, projecting into the sea, rising 150 feet above the watermark, and accessible only from the SE side. The original pile was formed chiefly of wood; yet made a great figure through out the troubled times of the Northumbrian kings.
A stronger structure, with Norman tower and Norman keep, was built principally about 1070; and this acted a part in most of the contests which shook the country, down to the reign of Edward IV.; but sustained very severe injury in a siege after the battle of Hexham. It passed, along with the manor, by grant of the Crown in the time of James I., to the family of Forster; underwent forfeiture in 1715, on account of its owner, Thomas Forster, having joined the Pretender; and was purchased by that gentleman’s maternal uncle, Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, and bequeathed by him, under trustees, for charitable uses.
The structure, as it now stands, includes a space of eight acres, and contains stores, schools, and a public library for the benefit of the surrounding population, together with numerous, constant, effective appliances for the rescue and relief of shipwrecked mariners. The Farn islands, with accompanying rocks and shoals, so dangerous to navigation, are in the offing; and the appliances at Bambrough Castle are held in continual readiness, under resident managers and continual patrols, to afford succour to the endangered or the shipwrecked.
The great tower commands an extensive view; and one of the apartments has some interesting portraits and four large ancient pieces of tapestry. Grace Darling, who acted so very heroically at the wreck of the Forfarshire steamer, lies interred in the neighbouring churchyard.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Adderstone
Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845
Adderstone, a township, in the parish of Bambrough, union of Belford, N. division of Bambrough ward and of Northumberland, 3 miles (S. E. by S.) from Belford; containing 302 inhabitants. The manor was possessed by the ancient family of Forster, from whom it came, in 1763, to John William Bacon, Esq., by whom the present handsome mansion, which stands near the site of the old hall, on the west bank of the Warn, was erected, and whose successor sold the estate to J. Pratt, Esq. Twizell House is also situated in the township.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1840
Adderstone, a township in the chapelry of Bambrough, Northumberland; 3 miles south-east by south from Belford; on the post-road from Berwick to Alnwick. Pop., in 1801, 300; in 1831, 322. Houses 55. Poor rates, in 1837, £178.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1840.
Mouson or Mowson
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Mouson, or Mowson, a township in Bambrough parish, Northumberland; 1 mile S of Belford. Acres, 752. Pop., 82. Houses, 14. There is a Roman camp.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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- County: Northumberland
- Civil Registration District: Belford
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Durham
- Rural Deanery: Bamburgh
- Poor Law Union: Belford
- Hundred: Bambrough
- Province: York