•  Hulne Park, Northumberland

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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hulne Park like this:

HULNE-PARK, a township in Alnwick parish, Northumberland; on the river Alne, 2 miles NW of Alnwick. It includes the hamlets of Hulne-Abbey, FriarsBuildings, and Park-Farm; and forms part of the grounds of Alnwick Castle. Pop., 117. Houses, 20. Hulne abbey here, on a hill which the founder fancied to resemble Mount Carmel, was founded, in 1240, by William de Vesci, after he had been at Palestine as a crusader; was of the Carmelite order, and the earliest of that order in England; was visited by Henry III. ...

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in 1256, -by Edward I. in 1292, 1294, and 1298, -by Edward II. in 1311 and 1322; and passed, at the dissolution, to the Percies. John Bale waS a member of the house, and wrote here his Lives. The outer walls and gate ways are still in excellent preservation; a strong tower, 40 feet by 29, built in 1489, by the fourth Earl of Northumberland, as a place of defence for the friars, is also in good condition, and contains some fine tapestries from designs by Rubens; but the church and the conventual buildings are in ruin. The church measured 118 feet by 19, and retains its sedilia and piscina; the sacristy, on the S of the choir, measured 19 feet by 8; the cloister, on the W, measured 90 feet by 77; the chapter house, on the E side of the cloister, measured 38 feet by 17, with a vestibule 11 feet by 8; and the refectory, to the E, with the dormitory above, measured 31 feet by 11.

Hulne Park through time

Hulne Park is now part of Alnwick district. Click here for graphs and data of how Alnwick has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hulne Park itself, go to Units and Statistics.

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