Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BELLISTER

BELLISTER, a township in Haltwhistle parish, Northumberland; on the South Tyne, near the Newcastle and Carlisle and the Alston railways, 1 mile S of Haltwhistle. Acres, 988. Pop., 117. Houses, 27.-Bellister Castle, now a crumbling mass of ruin, was the seat of the Blenkinsops.


(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: Bellister CP/Tn       Haltwhistle AP/CP       Northumberland AncC
Place: Bellister

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