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Chillingham, Northumberland

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Population
  
50 (2001 census)

Ceremonial county
  
Northumberland

Country
  
England

Local time
  
Sunday 4:42 AM

UK parliament constituency
  
Berwick-upon-Tweed

OS grid reference
  
NU060259

Region
  
North East

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Dialling code
  
01668

Unitary authority
  
Northumberland

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Weather
  
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Chillingham is a village in Northumberland, England. It is situated approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) to the east of Wooler, south of Chatton. At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100. Detailed information is included in the parish of Bewick.

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Map of Chillingham, Alnwick, UK

Chillingham is famous for its castle, which is said to be haunted, and the Chillingham Cattle, a wild herd of roughly 90 individuals which has been kept in an enclosure since the Middle Ages and strictly inbreeding for at least 300 years. The village contains Hebborn bastle house, a fortified house near Hepburn Wood.

HMS Chillingham, a Ham class minesweeper, was named after the village.

Notable people

  • George Thorp, a Royal Navy officer whose short but heroic career ended in his death aged 19 in the assault on Santa Cruz, Tenerife led by Nelson on 25 July 1797, was born in Chillingham on 9 September 1777. He was baptised on 7 October 1777 in the parish church, where his father Robert Thorp MA, DD (later Archdeacon of Northumberland) was rector as had earlier been his grandfather Thomas Thorp.
  • The Irish composer Charles Villiers Stanford wrote a song titled "Chillingham", serenading the beauty and peace of the landscape.

    • References

    Chillingham, Northumberland Wikipedia
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