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Widdrington in Northumberland County England History and GeographyWIDDRINGTON, a parochial chapelry in the eastern division of MORPETH ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 8 miles (N.E. by N.) from Morpeth, containing 388 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Northumberland, and diocese of Durham, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon. The church is ancient, and appears to have been once much larger. A Scotch church was erected here in 1765. Widdrington was separated from the parish of Woodhorn, and invested with distinct parochial rights, in 1768. A small colliery is worked near the village. There is a school-room, with a house and garden occupied by the master, whose salary of £25 a year is paid by the lady of the manor, for teaching the poor children of the parish. The ancient castle, which stood in a noble park of six hundred acres, was burned down more than fifty years ago, and the present edifice, which occupies the site of the former, is much out of repair, and now uninhabited. This was long the seat of the family of Widdrington, of whom many have at various periods distinguished themselves against the Scots. Sir William, in 1642, was expelled from the House of Commons for raising forces in defence of Charles I., who, in the following year, elevated him to the dignity of Baron Widdrington of Blankney. After the battle of Marston Moor he left the kingdom, when his estates were confiscated by the parliament; but returning in the service of Charles II., he was slain at the battle of Wigan. His son and successor, William, Lord Widdrington, was attainted in 1715, and his property, to the amount of £100,000, was sold for the public use. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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