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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hedgeley like this:
HEDGELEY, a township in Eglingham parish, Northumberland; under the Cheviots, near the river Breamish, 8 miles WNW of Alnwick. Acres, 700. Pop., 104. Houses, 17. Hedgeley House is a chief residence. A Druidical circle of ten stones, and 114 feet in diameter, is at Three Stone burn. A skirmish between the Lancastrians, under Sir Ralph Percy, and the Yorkists, under Lord Montacute, took place, in 1463, on Hedgeley moor, and was fatal to Sir Ralph Percy. ...
A stone pillar, known as Hedgeley cross, stands in commemoration of him, and bears the inscription "'Tis of the Percy's deathless fame, That dark grey cross remains to tell; It bears the Percy's honoured name, For near its base the Percy fell."
Hedgeley is now part of NORTHUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTHUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hedgeley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hedgeley in Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9271
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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