Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ABBEY-LANDS

ABBEY-LANDS, a township in Alnwick parish, Northumberland; 2 miles NW of Alnwick. It contains the hamlets of Broomhouse, Heckly, Heckly-Farm, Heckly-Grange, and Whitehouse; and it contained anciently an Abbey of canons. Pop., 288. Houses, 52.


(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: Alnwick CP/AP       Northumberland AncC
Place: Abbeylands

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