In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bellister like this:
BELLISTER, a township in Haltwhistle parish, Northumberland; on the South Tyne, near the Newcastle and Carlisle and the Alston railways, 1 mile S of Haltwhistle. Acres, 988. Pop., 117. Houses, 27.-Bellister Castle, now a crumbling mass of ruin, was the seat of the Blenkinsops.
Bellister through time
Bellister is now part of Tynedale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Tynedale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bellister itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bellister, in Tynedale and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8723
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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