OS grid reference NY955795 Post town HEXHAM Local time Thursday 7:04 PM | Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district NE48 | |
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Thockrington is a village in Northumberland, England. The village lies about 10 miles (16 km) north of Hexham.
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Map of Thockrington, Hexham, UK
Governance
Thockrington is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham.
Religious sites
Thockrington church, which stands so prominently on a spur of the Great Whin Sill, is one of the oldest churches in the county. The church is dedicated to St Aidan.
Here are buried several members of the ancient family of Shafto, the earliest mention of whom is in 1240. The Shaftos lived at nearby Bavington until the eighteenth century when, as a result of their support of the Jacobite cause in 1715, their estates were confiscated by the Crown, and ultimately sold to a Delaval. The Shaftos had connections with the county of Durham and lived on their Durham estates until 1953, when Mr R. D. Shafto returned to Bavington Hall.
Landmarks
A little over a mile south-west of the village are the ruins of Little Swinburne Tower, a fifteenth-century pele tower.