WIDDRINGTON, a parish in Morpeth district, Northumberland; adjacent to the Northeastern railway, 7½ miles NE by N of Morpeth. It contains W. village and Dunridge and Linton hamlets; has a post-office under Morpeth and a r. station; and gave the title of Baron, in the time of Charles I., to the Widdringtons. Acres, 4,530. Real property, £4,142; of which £74 are in mines. Pop., 502. Houses, 95. The manor belonged, from the time of Henry III. till 1715, to the Widdringtons; and, with W. Castle, belongs now to Lord Vernon. The castle was burnt down in 1780, and afterwards rebuilt. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £70.* Patron, Lord Vernon. There are a United Presbyterian chapel and a reading room.

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