Place:


Newminster  Northumberland

 

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

NEWMINSTER ABBEY, a township in Morpeth parish, Northumberland; on the river Wansbeck, ½ a mile W of Morpeth. Acres, 717. Pop., 140. Houses, 26. A splendid Cistertian monastery stood here. See Morpeth.

Newminster through time

Newminster is now part of Castle Morpeth district. Click here for graphs and data of how Castle Morpeth has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Newminster itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Newminster, in Castle Morpeth and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9561

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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