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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bellister like this:
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.
Bellister is now part of NORTHUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTHUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bellister itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bellister in Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8723
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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