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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wark Near Bellingham like this:
WARK, a village, a township, and a parish, in Bellingham district, Northumberland. The village stands on the North Tyne river, near the Border Counties railway, 4¼ miles SSE of Bellingham; and has a post-office under Hexham, and a r. station. The township comprises 3,160 acres. Pop., 546. ...
Houses, 132.—The parish includes three other townships, and comprises 22,986 acres. Real property, £7,891. Pop., 899. Houses, 197. The property is much subdivided. A seat of the Ratcliffes was at Mote Hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £340.* Patron, Greenwich Hospital. The church was built in 1818. There are an English Presbyterian chapel, a Wesleyan chapel, a free school, and a charity of £200 a year partly expended on the school.
Wark Near Bellingham is now part of NORTHUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTHUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wark Near Bellingham itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wark Near Bellingham in Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9757
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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