In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Kielder like this:
KIELDER, a property of the Duke of Northumberland, on the NW border of Northumberland; among the Cheviot moors, with a burn of its own name running to the North Tyne, and on the Border Counties railway, 1 6¾ miles NW of Bellingham. It has a station on the railway; and it contains a shooting lodge of the Duke of Northumberland, a modern edifice in the Gothic style, called Kielder Castle. ...
It possesses celebrity from a poem in Scott's Border Minstrelsy, and from an ancient story of its Cout or Giant, who went into combat with Lord Soulis of Hermitage; and it contains spots and objects of note in connexion with that story and with other Border legends. One of the spots is the Cout's Grave, an irregular circle of stones, adjacent to a picturesque dell. "This is the bonny brae, the green, Yet sacred to the brave; Where still, of ancient size, is seen Gigantic Kielder's grave."
Kielder through time
Kielder is now part of Tynedale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Tynedale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Kielder itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Kielder, in Tynedale and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22778
Date accessed: 18th April 2024
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