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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ord like this:
ORD, a township, with a village, in Tweedmouth parish, Northumberland; on the river Tweed, and on the Tweedmouth and Kelso railway, 1 mile W of Tweed-mouth. Acres, 2, 568. Pop. in 1851, 914; in 1861, 762. Houses, 155. Ord House is a chief residence. Anembankment at the W end of the village commands a fine vista-view of the Merse. Traces of a Roman camp, connected with Watling-street, are in a field to the W.
Ord is now part of NORTHUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTHUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ord itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ord in Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9588
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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