Beanley

Village in Northumberland, in England

Human settlement in England

Hedgeley

Unitary authority

Northumberland

Shire county

Northumberland

Region

North East

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Berwick-upon-Tweed

List of places: UK; England; Northumberland

55°27′36″N 1°52′01″W / 55.460°N 1.867°W / 55.460; -1.867

Beanley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hedgeley in the county of Northumberland, England. It is situated to the north-west of Alnwick, near Eglingham. In 1951 the parish had a population of 53.^[1]

In 1870–1872, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Beanley as "a township in Eglingham parish, Northumberland; on the river Breamish, 7 miles NW of Alnwick. Acres, 2,341. Pop., 116. Houses, 23. The earls of Dunbar anciently held it on the tenure of maintaining a road into Scotland. A cross stands on Hedgeley-moor, at a short distance from the village, erected to the memory of Sir Ralph Percy, who fell in 1464 in a battle with the Yorkists."

Governance

Beanley is in the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Beanley was formerly a township in Eglingham parish,^[2] from 1866 Beanley was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1955 and merged with Hedgeley.^[3]

References

^ "Population statistics Beanley Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
^ "History of Beanley, in Alnwick and Northumberland". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
^ "Relationships and changes Beanley Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 17 January 2022.