Greenscheles Cleugh, Northumberland

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. "

Greenscheles Cleugh through time

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

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