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FOWBERRY, a hamlet in Bambrough parish, Northumberland; on the river Till, 3 miles NE of Wooler. Fowberry Tower here is pleasantly and romantically situated; belonged, in 1273, to William de Folebyr; was attacked, in 1524 and 1532, by the Scots; and is now a modernly reconstructed edifice, the seat of the Culleys.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Northumberland AncC |
Place: | Fowberry |
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