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ETAL, or Hothal, a village and a chapelry in Ford parish, Northumberland. The village stands on the river Till, 5½ miles ESE of Cornhill r. station, and 9 NNW of Wooler; has a post office under Coldstream; presents a pleasant appearance; and attracts strangers by its vicinity to angling-grounds and famous battlefields. At the west end of it are a gate-house and tower of Etal Castle, -built in 1341 by Robert de Manners, and taken in 1513 by the Scots; and near the east end is Etal Hall, formerly the seat of the Carrs of Glendale, but now the property of the Earl of Glasgow. A Presbyterian church is at the village; and a beautiful chapel, built in 1856, by Lady A. Fitzclarence, in memorial of her husband and child, is near the Hall. The chapelry is connected with the latter edifice, and is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham; but no statistics of it have been returned.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Ford AP/CP Northumberland AncC |
Place names: | ETAL | ETAL OR HOTHAL | HOTHAL |
Place: | Etal |
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