Place:


Haggerston  Northumberland

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Haggerston like this:

HAGGERSTON, a township in Ancroft parish, Northumberland; 6½ miles SE of Berwick-on-Tweed. Pop., 197. Haggerston House here belonged formerly to the Haggerstones; belongs now to Capt. Leyland; and includes an old fortified tower, in which Edward II. received the homage of the Earl of Lancaster.

Additional information about this locality is available for Ancroft

Haggerston through time

Haggerston is now part of Berwick upon Tweed district. Click here for graphs and data of how Berwick upon Tweed has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Haggerston itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Haggerston, in Berwick upon Tweed and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25089

Date accessed: 24th April 2024


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