Description
Cambo, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish formed from that of Hartburn, in Northumberland. The township lies near an affluent of the river Wansbeck, 1 mile from Scot's Gap station, 11 miles SE by S of Otterbum, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Acreage of township, 691; population, 70; of ecclesiastical parish, 479. The parish is much more extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1844. The lord of the manor is the chief landowner. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £208 with residence. Patron, Sir G. 0. Trevelyan. The church is good. There are large freestone quarries, a reading-room, and a subscription library.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
