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Bedlington in Northumberland County England History and GeographyBEDLINGTON, a parish in the eastern division of CHESTER ward, county palatine of DURHAM, of which it is a detached portion, lying at the south-eastern corner of Castle ward, county of Northumberland, 5½ miles (S.E. by E.) from Morpeth, comprising the townships of Bedlington, Chambois with North Blyth, Choppington, Netherton, and East and West Sleckburn, and containing 1862 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northumberland, and diocese of Durham, rated in the king's books at £13. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The church, dedicated to St. Cuthbert, whose remains rested here for one night in 1069, when the monks fled from Durham, at the menacing approach of the Conqueror, was enlarged and repaired in 1818. Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists and Presbyterians have each a place of worship here. This parish, commonly termed Bedlingtonshire, had anciently courts within its own limits, and the officers of justice were appointed by the Bishop of Durham, to whom the manor belongs. Petty sessions for the district are held monthly at one of the inns in the village. Bedlington iron-works rank among the oldest and most extensive in the kingdom: they are romantically situated on the banks of the river Blyth, which is navigable for small craft, and affords the means of conveying their produce, consisting of chain cables, bolts, bar and sheet iron, and nearly all the heavier articles in wrought iron, to the port of Blyth, where it is shipped for London. The vicinity contains several stone quarries, producing grind-stones and whet-stones of a superior quality; and there are some extensive collieries. A petrifying spring rises at the western end of the village. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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