Description
Blagdon, a hamlet in Stannington parish, Northumberland, near the river Blyth and the N.E.R., 7 miles S of Morpeth, 1 1/2 mile from Plessey railway station. Post town, money order and telegraph office, Cramlington (R.S.O.) It was held in the time of Henry III. by John de Plessis; passed in 1567 to the Fenwicks, and afterwards to the Whites, and now contains Blagdon Hall, the seat of the Ridley family.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
