Chillingham, Northumberland

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Chillingham

Chillingham Cattle grazing

Chillingham

Location within Northumberland

Population 50 (2001 census)[1]

OS grid reference NU060259

 Northumberland
Unitary authority

Ceremonial county  Northumberland
Region  North East
Country England
 Sovereign state United Kingdom

Post town ALNWICK

Postcode district NE66
Dialling code 01668
Police Northumbria
Fire Northumberland
Ambulance North East

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UK
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Northumberland
55.527°N 1.904°WCoordinates:  55.527°N 1.904°W

Chillingham is a village in Northumberland, England. It is situated

approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) to the east of Wooler, south of Chatton. At the
2011 Census the population remained less than 100. Detailed information
is included in the parish of Bewick.
Chillingham is famous for its castle, which is said to be haunted, and
the Chillingham Cattle, a wild herd of roughly 90 individuals which has been
kept in an enclosure since the Middle Ages and strictly inbreeding for at
least 300 years. The village contains Hebborn bastle house, a fortified house
near Hepburn Wood.[2]
HMS Chillingham, a Ham class minesweeper, was named after the village.

Contents

 1Notable people
 2See also
 3References
 4External links

Notable people[edit]
 George Thorp, a Royal Navy officer whose
short but heroic career ended in his death
aged 19 in the assault on Santa Cruz,
Tenerife led by Nelson on 25 July 1797, was
 born in Chillingham on 9 September 1777.
He was baptised on 7 October 1777 in the
parish church, where his father Robert
Thorp MA, DD (later Archdeacon of
Northumberland) was rector as had earlier
been his grandfather Thomas Thorp.
 The Irish composer Charles Villiers
Stanford wrote a song titled "Chillingham",
serenading the beauty and peace of the
landscape.
 John Sandford (1832–1892), cricketer and
judicial commissioner of Burma and Mysore.

See also[edit]
 Bewick and Beanley Moors SSSI.

References[edit]
1. ^ "Office for National Statistics: Neighbourhood
Statistics". Archived from the original on 13 June
2011. Retrieved 25 October 2009.
2. ^ "Background". Famous Hepburns. Archived
from the original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved 22
April 2010.

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chillingham, Northumberland.

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