•  Greenscheles Cleugh, Northumberland

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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Greenscheles Cleugh like this:

GREENSCHELES CLEUGH, a place on the SW border of Northumberland; on the South Tyne river, 3¾ miles S of Haltwhistle. It was the scene of a remarkable murder in 1530, which gave rise to the fictitious ballad of ' ' Surtees, " inserted by Sir Walter Scott in his ' ' Border Minstrelsy. "

The location is half way along the stretch of the South Tyne river between the point where the Hartley Burn enters, opposite Featherstone Castle, and the railway bridge at Lambley. Our descriptive gazetteers place it in the general area, but Greenscheles Cleugh is placed on this specific stretch by Augustus Hare's A Handbook for Travellers in Durham and Northumberland (London: John Murray, 1873, p.264; available from the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org/details/ahandbookfortra00haregoog); this section of the book provides a description of the South Tyne valley working from north to south. The name "Greenscheles Cleugh" has not been found on a topographic map, despite a careful search of the relevant part of the Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 map of Northumberland of 1865, accessible on the old-maps.co.uk site. Additional information about this locality is available for Lambley

Greenscheles Cleugh through time

Greenscheles Cleugh is now part of Tynedale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Tynedale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Greenscheles Cleugh itself, go to Units and Statistics.

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