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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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HUMBLETON, a township in Doddington parish, Northumberland; 1 mile NE of Wooler. Acres, 784. Pop., 152. Houses, 36. The name was originally Humbledown; has sometimes been written Homildon; and, by Shakspeare, in his Henry IV., is written Holmedon. A hill here, called Humbleton Heugh, is cut into terraces, 30 feet broad, sometimes in three tiers, sometimes in five, probably formed, at an early period, for purposes of cultivation; and is crowned by an ancient, large, circular camp. A plain, below the hill, was the scene, in 1402, of a great defeat of the Earl of Douglas and the Duke of Albany by the Earl of Northumberland and his son Hotspur; bears the name of Redrigs; and has remains of a stone pillar, set up to commemorate the event. An urn and a stone coffin, inclosing a gigantic skeleton, were discovered here in 1811.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Doddington Ch/CP/AP Humbleton CP/Tn Northumberland AncC |
| Place names: | HUMBLETON | REDRIGS |
| Place: | Humbleton |
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