Slaley, Northumberland

Colpitts Grange is a hamlet in Northumberland, England. It is about 7 miles (11 km) to the south-east of Hexham.

Slaley Hall is a country house golf resort in Northumberland in North East England, built by local developers Seamus O'Carroll and John Rourke which hosted The Great North Open between 1996 and 2002. It is surrounded by 1000 acres (4 km²) of Northumberland forest and moorland. It also hosts Weddings, Anniversaries, Parties and Business events in the hotel run by the QHotels Group. It has many facilities including an indoor swimming pool, beauty salon, steam room, sauna, gym, sun beds, jacuzzi, and driving range. The England Football team have stayed at Slaley Hall for fixtures in the North East of England.The grounds include the Japanese Garden, a rare surviving example of a rock garden. It was designed and laid out before the First World War.

Rowley Burn (also known as Rowley Brook and Ham Burn, NY 9358) is a stream in Northumberland, running around three miles south of Hexham before joining the Devil's Water, which flows into the River Tyne.

Cambian Dilston College is a private further education college for those with special educational needs. It is located at Dilston Hall in Corbridge in the English county of Northumberland. The remains of Dilston Castle stand in its grounds. Established in 1971, it was previously known as Mencap National College Dilston and was owned and operated by MENCAP. In June 2014 Mencap sold the college to Cambian Group PLC and the college was renamed Cambian Dilston College. Today the college provides further education for young people with learning disabilities, autism spectrum conditions and complex needs. The college offers day, short-break and outreach services, and up to 52-week residential placements for students.

Dilston Castle is an unglazed 15th-century uninhabited tower house (and inactive Catholic chapel built for one family's services) at Dilston in the parish of Corbridge, Northumberland, England. Both are scheduled monuments and Grade I listed buildings giving them recognition for historic and architectural value as well protection from demolition. The three-storey tower was built by Sir William Claxton on the site of an earlier pele tower in the 15th century.

Beauclerc is a small village in Northumberland, England. It is situated to the west of Riding Mill, between Hexham and Newcastle upon Tyne.

Corbridge is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between Newcastle and Carlisle via Hexham. The station, situated 19 miles 15 chains (19.2 mi; 30.9 km) west of Newcastle, serves the village of Corbridge in Northumberland, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.

Healey is a rural estate and civil parish in Northumberland, England, situated between Riding Mill to the north and Slaley to the south. The neo-Norman St John's Parish Church, which was built in 1860, was awarded the 2011 Art in a Religious Context award for its windows by Anne Vibeke Mou and James Hugonin. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 194, falling slightly to 191 at the 2011 Census.Originally part of the barony of Baliol, Healey was given over to the Knights Templars in the 1260s (hence the area sometimes referred to as Temple Healey). With the suppression of the Templars the land passed to the monarch in 1308 and then shortly after to the Knight Hospitallars. At the dissolution the land returned to the monarch. By the early 1600s the area was held by the Sanderson family. In 1816 the land was sold to Robert Ormston of Newcastle. His son, also called Robert, took down the remains of the peel house and built Healey Hall. A chapel of ease, St John’s, was built in 1860 to designs by Major C.E. Davis of Bath. The west tower was added in 1890.The vicarage was built in 1877 from designs by Ewan Christian.

Devil's Water is a narrow, powerful river in Northumberland, England fed by many streams. A right-bank firmly north-flowing tributary of the Tyne, it ends at the north end of the rural township (estate) of Dilston along which Tyne bank boundary is a widening of the Tyne and longstanding bridge to Corbridge (the parish in which Dilston lies). It is formed from smaller burns and sikes between Embley and Hackford rising 3–6 miles (5–10 km) south and south-west of Hexham.Its tributaries include the Rowley Burn and West Dipton Burn, as suggested by the northward flow of the main stream, left-bank (rising in the west). Devil's Water figured large in the Battle of Hexham, 1464, a consolidatory, strategic win in the outlying presence of deposed king Henry VI of England between a large Yorkist army and small (pro-Henry) "Lancastrian" force.

Corbridge Bridge is a 17th-century stone bridge across the River Tyne at Corbridge, Northumberland, England. The bridge used to carry the A68 road over the River Tyne, but since the opening of the Hexham bypass (A69) the A68 now crosses by the Styford Bridge, 3 miles (5 km) downstream of Corbridge. It is listed as a Grade I listed building by Historic England.

Corbridge Vicar's Pele is a pele tower in the village of Corbridge, Northumberland, England. It was a three-storey defensive pele tower, with one room to each storey, built in the churchyard in 1318, and used as the vicarage for the adjacent church. It is built largely from sandstone taken from the Roman fortress at Coria nearby. It was in use as a vicarage until the early 17th century. In the summer of 2016 the tower was re-opened as a wedding and events venue after a three-year redevelopment project.

The Battle of Corbridge took place on the banks of the River Tyne near the village of Corbridge in Northumberland in the year 918. The battle was referenced in the Annals of Ulster and the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba. The battle was fought between Norse-Gael leader Ragnall ua Ímair and his allies against the forces of Constantín mac Áeda, King of Scotland together with those of Ealdred I of Bamburgh who had previously been driven from his lands by Ragnall. The Historia de Sancto Cuthberto adds that English fought alongside Norsemen. The Annals of Ulster informs us that the Norse army divided itself into four columns, in one of which may have been Jarl Ottir Iarla, a long-time ally of Ragnall.The Scots destroyed the first three columns, but were ambushed by the last. This unit had remained hidden behind a hill and was commanded by Ragnall. The Scots, however, managed to escape without disaster. It seems that it was an indecisive engagement, although it did allow Ragnall to further establish himself in Northumbria. In 919, Ragnall descended on York where he took the city and had himself proclaimed king. The Bernicians remained under him, although Ealdred I of Bamburgh and Domnall I, king of Strathclyde, paid homage to the king of England.In 1950, F. T. Wainwright argued that there were two battles of Corbridge in 914 and 918, and his view was widely accepted for over fifty years, but since around 2006 historians have taken the view that there was only one battle in 918.