Closure of Ellington Colliery at Ellington, Northumberland, the last remaining operational deep coal mine in North East England, and the last in the UK to extract coal from under the sea.
Acklington Park in the parish of Warkworth, Northumberland, England was the birthplace of John Rushworth (born c.1612) who achieved fame in both England and during the formation of the United States of America for compiling a series of works called Historical Collections covering the English Civil Wars throughout the 17th century.
In early 2005 residents of nearby villages were worried about the fate of the smelter when the only remaining local coal mine situated at Ellington, closed.
Bigge was the son of John Frederic Bigge (1814–1885) Vicar of Stamfordham, Northumberland and the grandson of Charles William Bigge (1773–1849) of Benton House, Little Benton, Newcastle on Tyne and Linden Hall, Longhorsley, Northumberland, High Sheriff of Northumberland and a prominent merchant and banker in Newcastle on Tyne.
England: Dartmoor, Exmoor, Lake District, New Forest, Northumberland, North York Moors, Peak District, South Downs, Yorkshire Dales and The Broads which has equivalent status to a National Park.
Westhall is a privately owned Victorian house built in the style of the castellated fortified house that it replaced on the same site.
The former county town, after which it is named, had been Berwick-upon-Tweed - but the royal burgh changed hands when it was lost by Scotland to England in 1482, subsequently becoming part of the county of Northumberland, in England.
This community is found in coastal areas on the west coast of Britain from Devon and Cornwall north to Shetland, with outlying examples in southeast Scotland and Northumberland.
From the station's 750 foot mast, transmissions from Burnhope were on VHF Channel 8 at a peak vision ERP of 100 kW, successfully covering a region spanning the North Yorkshire moorlands and Teesside in the South, to the remote upper reaches of Northumberland in the North.
The Carwile family's first place of residence was Northumberland.
Chillingham, Northumberland, a village in Northumberland in the north of England
His youngest son, Rev John Alexander Blackett (1803-1865), in 1855 inherited the Whitfield, Northumberland estates of his wife's uncle, William Ord, and changed his name to Blackett-Ord.
Church of St Michael and All Angels is a parish church located on Riverside in Felton, Northumberland, England.
The Church of the Holy Trinity is located in Embleton, Northumberland, England.
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Northumberland.
Cuthbert Horsley (by 1517-by 1586), of Horsley, Northumberland, was an English politician.
Cutheard was responsible for purchasing the village of Bedlington in Northumberland, which was later incorporated into the properties belonging to the Bishopric of Durham when the sees were merged by Bishop Aldhun in 995.
Keir was born in Northumberland to William Keir and Elizabeth (Craig) Keir; his Scottish father was a Presbyterian minister, and moved several times during Keir's childhood, from Bellingham to Newcastle, Birkenhead, and finally Glasgow, where Keir attended the independent school, Glasgow Academy.
The design bears a startling resemblance to the style of Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland, England.
Earle, Northumberland, a settlement in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England
When in 1961 the school moved to their premises at Ridley Hall, Northumberland, Fetherstone Castle was converted to a residential conference and activity centre for young people and students.
'Sandersii' was the first to be named (as G. nivalis var. sandersii) in 1877; it was found near Belford, Northumberland; 'Flavescens', a taller, finer clone, was found in a cottage garden in Whittingham, Northumberland in 1889 (and named G. flavescens).
Betteworth's body was buried at Howick, Northumberland, in the vault of the Grey family, on 27 May 1808.
George Cuthbert Mura M'Gonigle was the only son of William M'Gonigle, vicar of Ellingham, Northumberland,UK.
Wylie and his wife also own a number of racehorses, Close House (a hotel and country club) and Gosforth Shopping Centre.
Headway Arts, incorporated in 1995 as Headstrong Productions, is an independent arts organisation and registered charity based in Blyth, Northumberland.
In the 12th century Heaton became part of the Barony of Ellingham granted by Henry I to Nicholas de Grenville.
The village of Ellington in Northumberland may derives its name from the Saxon first name 'Ella'.
The celebration of the centennial of chemistry at Northumberland, Pennsylvania, the home of Joseph Priestley, who discovered oxygen in 1774, was suggested and brought about by Bolton.
Thomas Hilton Dawson, known as Hilton Dawson, (born 30 September 1953 in Stannington, Northumberland) was the Labour Party member of Parliament for the Lancashire constituency of Lancaster and Wyre from 1997 until 2005.
The body of Telegraphist George Philip Back was recovered and buried in the churchyard of St Peter & St Paul, Longhoughton; the body of Stoker Pliny Foster was never found.
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Northumberland after the English county of Northumberland, or the Dukedom of Northumberland.
In 1981, he was transferred to Ellington Colliery and went to college, receiving a HNC in Mining.
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.
In 1906 he bought the Ford Castle estate, Ford, Northumberland and in 1908 the Etal Castle estate, Etal, Northumberland, both of which remain in the ownership of the Joicey family.
These included the barony of Alnwick and a large property in Northumberland and considerable estates in Yorkshire, including Malton.
John Garbutt (ca. 1779 Northumberland, England - 1855 Garbutt, Monroe County, New York) was an American politician from New York.
Lumsden claimed a foul occurred but this was disallowed and the Blyth man acknowledged that he had been beaten by a better man.
Weightman was educated at "The Duchess Community High School", a state comprehensive school in the market town of Alnwick in Northumberland, in North East England.
He wrote an extensive chapter on the winter of 1904-5 in Britain, when a widespread religious revival in England and Wales coincided with numerous other strange occurrences: the appearances of ghosts, poltergeists, a few purported cases of Spontaneous Human Combustion, and a ravenous wolf (or perhaps werewolf) mutilating sheep and other farm animals in Northumberland.
As with many places in and close to the Maniototo area, its name may have been influenced by the Northumberland ancestry of early surveyor John Turnbull Thomson (there is a Middle March region in Northumberland, centred around the town of Otterburn).
It is located to the south east of the village of Cambois and to the north of the town of Blyth on the north eastern side of the River Blyth harbour.
Accessory House,Barrington Road, Bedlington, Northumberland, NE22 7AP
Northumberland Brewery is a small brewery which was located in Bomarsund, near Bedlington in Northumberland, England.
English chemist and co-discoverer of oxygen Joseph Priestley lived in Northumberland for the last decade of his life, until his death in 1804.
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Northumberland was the American home of eighteenth-century British theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, educator, and political theorist Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) from 1794 until his death in 1804.
Kirkley Hall is a 17th-century historic country mansion and Grade II listed building situated on the bank of the River Blyth, which is now a Horticultural and Agricultural training centre.
Derek Paul Dickenson (born 4 December 1949 in North Shields, Northumberland) is a retired male hammer thrower from England, who represented the United Kingdom at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1976 (Montreal).
In the 1962 federal election, she ran as a Liberal candidate in the riding of Northumberland.
The best known long distance record is 333 mi (535.8 km) from Blyth in the United Kingdom to Almere, Netherlands.
This locomotive, a 1905 product of the Juniata Shops, was selected by the railroad for preservation as a historic artifact and was stored at Wilmington, Delaware until 1951, following which it was placed in the PRR's historic collection in the roundhouse at Northumberland, Pennsylvania.
The first project with quantum sheep transpired in 2002 under the direction of Valerie Laws, using the sheep of one Donald Slater from Northumberland.
Muir was born at Otterburn, Northumberland, the oldest of five children of a Reformed Presbyterian minister.
It was situated in the beautiful and historic village of Elsdon in North Northumberland.
The dedication to the duchess meant that Thomas Percy arranged the work to give prominence to the border ballads which were composed in and about the Scottish and English borders, specifically Northumberland, home county of the Percies.
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The work was dedicated to Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Northumberland, who was married to Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland.
Ridley Bridge is a stone arch road bridge near Ridley Hall in Northumberland.
Ridley Railway Bridge is a railway bridge carrying the railway between Newcastle upon Tyne and Carlisle across the River South Tyne near Ridley Hall in Northumberland.
On July 7, 1829 he was licensed to preach the gospel by the presbytery of Selkirk, and ordained minister to the congregation at Stamfordham, Northumberland, in October 1830.
Robert Trollope was a 17th-century English architect, born in Yorkshire, who worked mainly in Northumberland and Durham.
Bell took a number of positions in the Anglican church, and was Curate of Benwell (1901–06), Alnwick (1906–07), Whittingham (1907–08), Christchurch (1908–11) and St. Andrews (1911–15).
After leaving the military he worked as a teacher and businessman before being elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1963 provincial election as the Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Northumberland riding.
As the climate warmed it became extinct from most of the British Isles around 5,500 years ago except in Scotland and at Kielder, Northumberland.
The starting episode opens with Lord Constantine visiting the ruler of Northumberland in the northernmost part of England and he is urgently required to return to the south to Camelot in order to claim Arthur's throne.
In 1949 she was withdrawn from service and was scrapped the following year in Blyth.
In 1234 Stephen left Sawley to take up the abbacy at its mother-house, Newminster, in Northumberland, and remained here until 1247 when he was elected to the abbacy of his former community, Fountains.
The location of 'Honeywood Hall' is not traced but the guests visit Warkworth, Alnwick, and Chillingham Castle to see the wild cattle.
Bobby Burns, who lives in a quiet coal-mining town near Keely Bay in Northumberland, has had a wonderful summer.
Her adventures and trials continue after she is shipwrecked on the Northumberland coast.
Akenside got the idea for the poem during a visit to Morpeth in 1738.
The plot is based around the ancient Flawse family, landed gentry based at the falling-down Flawse Hall, (near "Flawse Fell") in the wilds of Northumberland, just south of the Anglo-Scottish border.
Theodore Van Kirk (born 27 February 1921 in Northumberland, Pennsylvania) is a former United States Army Air Force navigator.
Thomas Charles Bigge (died 1794) was High Sheriff of Northumberland for 1771.
Tipping died on 5 February 1993, aged 34, in a parachuting accident at Brunton, near Alnwick, Northumberland, while filming for the BBC documentary series 999.
The Wellesley Nautical School was a naval training school first located on the Tyne, and later removed to Blyth
Westhall is a privately owned castellated house at Belford in Northumberland, England now in use as a farm.
He was sent to the presbytery at Newcastle upon Tyne, and preached as a probationer at the adjoining village of Stamfordham, where in 1847 he was ordained into the priesthood.
In 1174, believing Henry II to be distracted by the fighting in France, William the Lion attempted to regain Northumberland for Scotland.
He married in 1806 the second daughter of the Rev. E. Law of Whittingham, Northumberland.
He inherited estates and coal and lead mining interests at Whitfield, Northumberland on the death of his father.
In 1750 he bought the ancient Manor and estate at Whitfield, Northumberland, from the financially pressed Whitfield family.
Plender was born at Felling, County Durham, the son of William Plender, of The Oaks, Dalston, Northumberland, by Elizabeth Agnes Smallpiece Vardy.
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These included the creation of a medal commemorating the victory at the Battle of the Nile and the creation of the Nelson Memorial at his estate at Swarland, Northumberland.
Located at the mouth of the River Aln, the village has been an important trading port in Northumberland's past, mainly involved in the export of grain, and smuggling.
Although the band has a core membership from Backworth, Shiremoor and nearby towns such as Whitley Bay and North Shields, the bands also attract members from further afield such as Jarrow, Durham and Northumberland.
Sound levels near the north-south road passing by Bamburgh Castle are in the range of 59 to 63 dBA in the daytime (Northumberland Sound Mapping Study, Northumberland, England, June 2003).
It was fought at Hedgeley Moor, north of the village of Glanton in Northumberland, between a Yorkist army led by John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu and a Lancastrian army led by the Duke of Somerset.
Between 1982 and 1996, Berwick Bandits were based at the Berrington Lough track near Ancroft, Northumberland.
The Blackett Baronetcy, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the County of Northumberland, was created in the Baronetage of England on 23 January 1685 for William Blackett, third son of the first Baronet of the 1673 creation.
Blackleg Miner is a 19th-century English folk song, originally from Northumberland (as can be deduced from the dialect in the song and the references in it to the villages of Seghill and Seaton Delaval).
Only the fort's earthworks are now visible, the Wall at this point and the fort's north ramparts having been demolished for the construction of General Wade's early 18th century military road (now the B6318).
Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet (1719–1804), baronet and member of the British House of Commons for Northumberland
He was twice married: first, on 9 June 1827, to Maria, daughter of the Rev. Edward Bromhead of Reepham near Lincoln, and, secondly, in March 1847, to Eleanor, daughter of Addison Fenwick of Bishopwearmouth in Tyne and Wear, and widow of W. Brown Clark of Belford Hall in Northumberland.
Ernest Procter was born into a Quaker family in 1886 in Tynemouth, Northumberland.
Tragically, he was driving from his home in Gateshead to his brother's funeral in Lesbury, in northern Northumberland, when he had a fatal road accident.
It has a population of about 400, most of whom live on the Northumberland side of the River Irthing and Poltross Burn.
She and her father William determined that the weather was too rough for the lifeboat to put out from Seahouses (then North Sunderland), so they took a rowing boat (a 21 ft, 4-man Northumberland coble) across to the survivors, taking a long route that kept to the lee side of the islands, a distance of nearly a mile.
Henry Atkinson manuscript, compiler of an early (1694-5) music manuscript in Northumberland
His position as a character in the Shakespearean canon inspired the character of Lord Percy Percy, Duke of Northumberland in the historical sitcom The Black Adder, set during the very late Plantagenet era.
A close associate of his second cousin, the Duke of Northumberland, he was arrested on 25 July 1553 at Calais.
The Progressive Conservatives won a majority government in the 1995 provincial election, and Fawcett lost the Northumberland riding to Progressive Conservative candidate Doug Galt by over 6,000 votes.
Candlish was born in Tarset, Northumberland, the eldest son of John Candlish, a farmer, and his wife, Mary, née Robson.
Sir John Delaval, 3rd Baronet (1654–1729), English MP for Morpeth and Northumberland
John William Maloney (1883–1954), Canadian Member of Parliament for Northumberland
Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet (1831–1914), English legislator who served as High Sheriff of Northumberland, grandson of Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet
On his return to England the Duke of Northumberland procured him the living of Elsdon, in Northumberland, and made Dutens overseer and senior travel companion - in effect, tutor - to his younger son during his Grand Tour.
Built in 1971 by the Government of Canada for Canadian National Railways (CNR) at Port Weller Drydocks in St. Catharines, Ontario, Holiday Island is designed for the sheltered waters of the Northumberland Strait; as such, her vehicle decks are open on both sides and she lacks a hurricane bow.
The Northumberland National Park covers a large area of Western Northumberland and borders the English county of Cumbria and the Scottish county of The Scottish borders.
The First Class Lounge and part of the Aft Grand Staircase, can be found in the White Swan Hotel, in Alnwick, Northumberland, England.
Born in Gosforth, Northumberland, he was educated at St Augustine's High School, Edinburgh and at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh.
They were spread far and wide geographically from Kent, controlled by Bishop Odo, to Northumberland, controlled by Robert de Mowbray, to Gloucestershire and Somerset under Geoffrey de Montbray (Bishop of Coutances), to Norfolk with Roger Bigod, Roger of Montgomery at Shrewsbury in Shropshire, and a vast swathe of territory in the south-west, centre and south of England under Count Robert.
He was successful at Tynedale R.F.C. having scored 23 tries in 29 games in the 2010-2011 season for the Northumberland club.
He inherited substantial Northumberland estates including Twizell Castle, Tillmouth House, Seghill and Fowberry Tower, the latter being sold in 1807.
He married Emma, daughter of Richard Henry Alexander Bennet of Babraham, Cambridgeshire, on 13 July 1787; she was a niece of Frances Julia (née Burrell, daughter of Peter Burrell), second wife of the 2nd Duke of Northumberland.
Its archaeological collection is held at the Great North Museum, its bagpipe collection, based on the collection assembled by William Cocks, in Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum, and its collection of manuscripts at the Northumberland Record Office.
Martin was the son of Angus Martin, a surgeon from Forest Hall in Northumberland; his mother Robina was from Wooler.
William of Alnwick (c. 1275 – March 1333) was a Franciscan friar and theologian, and bishop of Giovinazzo, who took his name from Alnwick in Northumberland.
In the mid-19th century, it belonged to the pipemaker John Baty, of Wark, Northumberland, and it now belongs to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne.