Belford railway station (England)

Easington is a place and former civil parish, now in the parish of Belford about 14 miles from Alnwick, in the county of Northumberland, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 143. The parish touched Adderstone with Lucker, Bamburgh, Belford and Middleton. The parish is coastal and stretches from Budle Bay in the east to Chesters Hill.

Crag Mill railway station served the village of Belford, Northumberland, England from around 1862 to 1877 on the East Coast Main Line.

Belford Hall is a Grade I listed building, an 18th-century mansion house situated at Belford, Northumberland. The Manor of Belford was acquired by the Dixon family in 1726, and in 1752 Abraham Dixon built a mansion house in a Palladian style to a design by architect James Paine. In 1770 heiress Margaret Dixon married William Brown. Their daughter later married Newcastle upon Tyne merchant, Lt. Col. William Clark, Deputy Lieutenant and High Sheriff of Northumberland who, in 1818, remodelled the house and added two new wings, with the assistance of architect John Dobson. An extensive park, created in the mid 18th century, retains several original features and has been designated a conservation area. An 18th-century folly in the park is a Grade II listed building. During World War II the Hall was requisitioned by the army and became neglected and dilapidated. In the 1980s it was acquired by the Northern Heritage Trust, renovated, restored, and converted to residential apartments. A golf course was created on a part of the park.

Belford is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England, about halfway between Alnwick and Berwick-upon-Tweed, a few miles inland from the east coast and just off the Great North Road, the A1. At the 2001 census it had a population of 1,055, increasing to 1,258 at the 2011 Census.Belford is surrounded by rich pastoral farmland, and to the west of the village is found one of the better rock climbing locations in the county, Bowden Doors.

Bellshill is a village in Northumberland, in England. It is situated to the south-west of Bamburgh, inland from the North Sea coast.

Adderstone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Adderstone with Lucker, in the county of Northumberland, England. In 1951 the parish had a population of 185.

Adderstone with Lucker is a civil parish in Northumberland, England. The parish includes the villages of Adderstone, Lucker, Warenford, Rosebrough, Newstead, Bellshill and Bradford, and has a population (2001) of 195. increasing to 238 at the 2011 Census.

Westhall is a privately owned 19th-century castellated house at Belford in Northumberland, England now in use as a farm. It is on a site with older historical associations.

Adderstone Hall (grid reference NU141303) is a privately owned Georgian Grecian mansion situated on the bank of the River Warn near Lucker, Northumberland. It is a Grade II* listed building from which the present owners operate a holiday park. Adderstone was held by the Forster family, Governors of Bamburgh Castle from the 12th century. A pele tower of which no trace now remains existed on or close to the site in 1415. Thomas Forster (1659–1725), High Sheriff of Northumberland, built a new manor house in the early 18th century. The Forsters lived on the estate for over 400 years until they were ruined by the financial excesses of Sir William Forster (d. 1700) and the involvement of Thomas Forster (1683–1738) in the Jacobite rising of 1715. The property, already leased and subsequently acquired by the Watson family, passed briefly to John W. Bacon of Staward Hall in 1763 before passing to the Watsons who were already tenants of the property. The present hall was built in 1819 to a design by architect William Burn. The first Watson to be born at Adderstone (in 1760) was Captain John Watson whose son Sir William Watson, an MP and Baron of the Exchequer (1856) married Anne, the sister of the great industrialist Lord Armstrong. Their son John William (born at Adderstone Hall 1827) had one son, Willam, who inherited Cragside and the Armstrong fortune from his great-uncle, Lord Armstrong, who had bought Bamburgh Castle in the 1894 after the death of his wife, Margaret Ramshaw, and began restoring the building in grand Victorian style, but died (in 1900) before the work was completed. Adderstone was left to his sister Dorothy who married Noel Villiers in 1903 and lived at Adderstone Hall until she died in 1961, when the property was sold for the benefit of her many nephews and nieces.

Bradford is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Adderstone with Lucker, in the county of Northumberland, England. It is situated to the south-west of Bamburgh, a short distance inland from the North Sea coast. In 1951 the parish had a population of 14.

Lucker railway station served the village of Lucker, Northumberland, England, from 1847 to 1965 on the East Coast Main Line.

Middleton Hall is a country house near the settlement of Middleton, Northumberland, in that parish, that dates from 1871. It is listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England.Middleton Hall sits on a private 30 acres (0.12 km2) estate which includes two large lakes. The Main Hall has 10 bedrooms and is currently being operated as an exclusive hire multiuse estate. It currently has three other properties on its grounds: a boathouse, a folly and the Lake Cottages. The hall recently featured in The Times Best 100 British Holiday destinations.