Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CRASTER

CRASTER, a township in Embleton parish, Northumberland; on the coast, near the Northeastern railway, 6 miles NE of Alnwick. It has a post office under Alnwick. Acres, 796. Pop., 216. Houses, 38. Craster House has belonged, for six centuries, to the family of Craster.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Craster CP/Tn       Embleton AP/CP       Northumberland AncC
Place: Craster

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