Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BEADNELL

BEADNELL, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Bambrough parish, Northumberland. The village stands on the coast, 3¾ miles ENE of Chathill r. station, and 5¼. SE of Bambrough; and has a post office under Chathill, and a small harbour. The township comprises 743 acres. Pop., 311. Houses, 66. The chapelry includes the township, but is more extensive; and was constituted in 1854. Rated property, £1,371. Pop., 577. Houses, 115. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £79.* Patron, the Vicar of Bambrough. The church is a handsome Gothic edifice.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Northumberland AncC
Place: Beadnell

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