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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cowpen like this:
COWPEN, a township in Horton parish, Northumberland; at the mouth of the river Blyth, 1 mile W by N of Blyth. It has a post office, of the name of Cowpen, Northumberland. Acres, 1, 707. Pop., 6, 291. Houses, 1, 238. Coal is largely worked. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.
Cowpen is now part of NORTHUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTHUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cowpen itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cowpen in Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1257
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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