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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Belsay like this:
BELSAY, a township in Bolam parish, Northumberland; on the river Blyth, 9 ½ miles SW of Morpeth. It has a post office under Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Acres, 2,516. Pop., 384. Houses, 74. Belsay Castle, the ancient seat of the Middletons, now the property of SirM. L. Monck, Bart., is an old tower, with additions made by SirMiddleton in 1628. ...
The pile measures 56½ feet from N to S, and 47 ¼. from E to W; has four projecting turrets, three of them round, the other square; terminates in a corbelled parapet; and contains, on the first floor, a solar 43 feet long, 21½ wide, and 17 high.
Belsay is now part of NORTHUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTHUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Belsay itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Belsay in Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8725
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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