Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FOWBERRY

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))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Northumberland AncC
Place: Fowberry

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