Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DUDDO

DUDDO, a township and a chapelry in Norham parish, Northumberland. The township lies 3 miles SSW of Norham r. station. Acres, 1, 651. Pop., 311. Houses, 56. Grindon-Rigg here was the scene of a victory by the English over the Scots in 1558; and it has some memorials of the battle, and a small Druidical circle and a barrow. The chapelry was constituted in 1866. Pop., about 1, 000. The living is a vicarage. Value, £340.* The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Duddo CP/Tn       Norham AP/CP       Northumberland AncC
Place: Duddo

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