Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LOWICK

LOWICK, a village and a parish in Glendale district, Northumberland. The village stands 4 miles WSW of Beal r. station, and 7 NW of Belford; is a long and Straggling place, of late years greatly improved; and has a post office under Beal, Northumberland. The parish contains also the villages of Barmoor, Bowsdon, and Holburn, and the hamlet of Laverick-Law. Acres, 12,526. Real property, £13,192; of which £1,090 are in mines, and £1,600 in quarries. Pop., 1,946. Houses, 385. The property is divided among a few. Barmoor Castle is a chief residence. Coal-mining, stone-quarrying, lime-burning, and the making of bricks and drainpipes are carried on. Numerous interesting fossils have been found in the limestone; and a collection of them has been deposited in the Woodwardian museum in Cambridge. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The church was rebuilt towards the end of last century; and has a good E window, and a memorial window to the Gregson family. There are chapels for Presbyterians, Primitive Methodists, and Roman Catholics, a national school, and charities £4.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lowick CP/Ch       Glendale RegD/PLU       Northumberland AncC
Place: Lowick

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