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unusual facts about Morpeth


The Pleasures of the Imagination

Akenside got the idea for the poem during a visit to Morpeth in 1738.


Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od

A member of the Morpeth Harriers running club, he divides his time between his native country and Gateshead in England.

Gateshead TMD

The only remaining railway activity on the site is the line which connects the junctions leading to the bridges, and the Tyneside IECC which controls train movements on the East Coast Main Line between north of Northallerton and south of Morpeth.

Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead

Fire engines were sent by the most expeditious means from Durham, Hexham, Carlisle, Morpeth and Berwick.

Ignatius Bonomi

Other works included design of Marton House near Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria (1822), Blagdon Hall (1830) in Stannington near Morpeth, Northumberland, the church of St John the Baptist in Leeming, North Yorkshire (1839) and the restoration of St Nicholas House, Richmond, North Yorkshire.

John Delaval

Sir John Delaval, 3rd Baronet (1654–1729), English MP for Morpeth and Northumberland

Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum

The Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum is located in Morpeth Chantry, Morpeth, Northumberland, England.

Morpeth Herald

A broadsheet, established in 1854 as a monthly and becoming weekly in 1858, the newspaper serves Morpeth, Ponteland, Pegswood, Ellington, Lynemouth, Widdrington Station and the outlying districts.

Morpeth School

Special guests who have visited Morpeth School have included Tony Blair the British Prime Minister who visited the school during his first month in office.

Pegswood

Pegswood is on a small hill above the valley in which Morpeth is situated, close to the River Wansbeck and to the river Brocks Burn.

Stuart Coats

He unsuccessfully contested the Morpeth constituency as a Unionist in the 1906 general election and was also an unsuccessful candidate for Deptford in the January and December general elections of 1910.

William Button

Sir William Button, 1st Baronet (c. 1584–1655), of the Button baronets, MP for Wiltshire and Morpeth

Woodhorn

The site of the old pit is now the location for Northumberland Record Office, a purpose built building having been constructed to replace the two previous buildings at Morpeth and Gosforth.


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