Description
Cowpen, a village and a township in Horton parochial chapelry, Blyth parish, Northumberland, at the mouth of the river Blyth, 1 mile W by N of Blyth, and 1 from Bebside station on the N.E.R., with a post office, of the name of Cowpen, under Bebside (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Blyth. The township includes the villages of Cowpen, Cowpen Quay, Crofton, and Waterloo. Acreage, 1738; population, 12,982. The principal industries are shipbuilding, glass bottle making, and there are also extensive collieries and sawmills. Cowpen Hall is the seat; of the Sidney family. There is a Roman Catholic chapel, and a mission chapel connected with the parish church oi Horton.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
