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Beanley

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OS grid reference
  
NU085185

Country
  
England

Post town
  
ALNWICK

Local time
  
Wednesday 1:33 AM

District
  
Alnwick

Region
  
North East

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
NE66

Shire county
  
Northumberland

UK parliament constituency
  
Berwick-upon-Tweed

Beanley

Weather
  
2°C, Wind W at 13 km/h, 83% Humidity

Description

In 1870-1872, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Beanley like this:

Contents

"Beanley, 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."

Beanley is a village in Northumberland, in England. It is situated to the north-west of Alnwick, near Eglingham.

Governance

Beanley is in the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

References

Beanley Wikipedia