Description
Netherwitton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Northumberland, 3 miles from Ewesley, 6 1/2 from Meldon, and 8 from Scots Gap station on the North British railway. There is a post office under Morpeth; money order and telegraph office, Hartbum. Acreage of the township, 3930; population, 173; of the ecclesiastical parish, 345. There is a woollen factory. Netherwitton Ham is the seat of the Trevelyan family, who are lords of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £142 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Hartburn. The church is in the Early English style, and was enlarged in 1886. The chancel was restored and re-roofed, and a new organ erected, in 1881.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
