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Widdrington may refer to: ;Places *Widdrington, Northumberland, place in Northumberland, England *Widdrington railway station, railway station in Northumberland, England *Widdrington Station and Stobswood, place in Northumberland, England ;People * Widdrington family, Barons and Baronets *Widdrington (name) Widdrington is a surname, and may refer to: * The various barons Widdrington, including: ** William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington (1610 – 1651) ** His great-grandson William Widdrington, 4th Baron Widdrington (1678 – 1743) ** The 1 ...

Widdrington, Northumberland
Widdrington is a village and (as Widdrington Village) a civil parish in the county of Northumberland, England. It borders Tritlington and West Chevington and East Chevington parishes to the north, the North Sea to the east, Cresswell and Ellington and Linton parishes to the south, and Widdrington Station and Stobswood parish to the west. In 2011 the parish has a population of 167. History The area was the seat of the Widdrington family. In 1642, William Widdrington raised forces in support of Charles I, who elevated him to the new title of Baron Widdrington. After the defeat of the Royalist forces in the North, he fled and his estates were confiscated by Parliament. He returned in support of Charles II, but was slain at the Battle of Wigan Lane. William Widdrington, 4th Baron Widdrington, was convicted of high treason for his part in the Jacobite rising of 1715, his title forfeited, and his estates broken up and sold. The medieval tower house, Widdrington Castle, fell into ...
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Widdrington Railway Station
Widdrington is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between and . The station, situated north of Newcastle, serves the villages of Widdrington Station and Stobswood, Stobswood and Widdrington Station and Stobswood, Widdrington Station in Northumberland, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. History The station was opened by the Newcastle and Berwick Railway on 1 July 1847. An average of 3 or 4 stopping services each way per day ran between Newcastle railway station, Newcastle and Edinburgh Waverley railway station, Edinburgh Waverley via Berwick-upon-Tweed railway station, Berwick-upon-Tweed until the late 1980s. Following the electrification of the East Coast Main Line, these services were curtailed at Berwick-upon-Tweed. Services were further reduced to their current level by British Rail in May 1991, due to a shortage of rolling stock. The local rail user groupSENRUG has been campaigning to improve service levels at the s ...
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Widdrington Station And Stobswood
Widdrington Station and Stobswood is a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the county of Northumberland, England. It has 2,767 (as of 2011) and is north-northeast of Morpeth, Northumberland, Morpeth. It includes the settlements of ''Widdrington Station'' and ''Stobswood''. History Etymology As the name suggests, Widdrington Station has a Widdrington railway station, railway station. This is on the East Coast Main Line. Geography The soil is a strong clay, producing fine crops of wheat and beans, and the surface is generally level, rising more steeply to Above Ordnance Datum, AOD to the far west of the parish and with a gentle elevation towards the old village, which commands extensive views in every direction, and the area around which formerly abounded in wood. On the horizon from here is the sea. Fields are extensively farmed, some of which are pasture, and there are remains to the west of a quarry of freestone, active in 1848. The population is spread over a la ...
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Baron Widdrington
Baron Widdrington, of Blankney in the County of Lincoln, was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created on 2 November 1643 for Sir William Widdrington, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a baronet, of Widdrington in the County of Northumberland, in the Baronetage of England on 9 July 1642. The Widdringtons were an ancient Northumbrian family who gave their name to (or took their name from) the village, near Morpeth, Northumberland. In the 17th century the family were strongly Royalist. William Widdrington, 4th Baron Widdrington, joined Derwentwater and other Northumberland families in the Jacobite rising of 1715 and (together with his brothers Charles and Peregrine) was captured at the Battle of Preston (1715). As a consequence of the subsequent attainder of the brothers, the Widdrington estates were sequestered and sold by the Crown, and the title was forfeited. Of their three great houses no traces now remain: Widdrington Castle was demolished in 1862 (although the ...
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