Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WREIGHILL

WREIGHILL, a township in Rothbury parish, Northumberland , 5¼ miles W of Rothbury. Acres, 411. Pop., 13. Houses, 3. This place was once populous; but it suffered fearful devastation, first by an incursion of moss-troopers in 1412,-next by a visitation of the place in 1665.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Rothbury AP/CP       Wreighill CP/Tn       Northumberland AncC
Place: Wreighill

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