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Framlington (Long) in Northumberland County England History and GeographyFRAMLINGTON (LONG), a parish in the eastern division of COQUETDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, comprising the townships of Brinkburn High ward, Brinkburn Low ward, and Long Framlington, and containing 815 inhabitants, of which number, 563 are in the township of Long Framlington, 11 miles (N.N.W.) from Morpeth. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Northumberland, and diocese of Durham, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Felton. There is a place of worship for Presbyterians. The interest of £500, the bequest of Mrs. Tate, in 1825, is appropriated to the maintenance of a school for educating twenty poor children. Within the last few years the village has been much improved by the erection of several neat houses and shops. It was formerly very badly supplied with water, but in 1821, a liberal subscription was raised to sink a public well, from which the inhabitants have now an abundant supply. Fairs for the sale of sheep, black cattle, &c., are held on the second Tuesday in July, and on October 25th. Limestone, freestone, and coal, are found in the parish. The Hall-hill, at this place, is supposed to have been the site of a Roman station, and the remains of a triple intrenchment are still visible. At Evergreen, near the same place, are foundations of a building supposed to have been a fort, At the north-western extremity of the parish is a long narrow tract of wild and dreary moor-land, containing about one thousand acres. Here is a great number of cairns, composed of loose stones, but their situation is remote and difficult of access. On a farm called Canada are large heaps of slag, or scori', such as is produced by smelting iron-stone, which operation is supposed to have been done by the Romans, as the road called the Devil's causeway passes near this place. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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