Cambo is a village and former

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, now in the parish of

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, in

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, England. It is about to the west of the county town of

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at the junction of the B6342 and B6343 roads. The village was gifted along with the Wallington Estate to the

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by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan in 1942, the first donation of its kind. It remains a National Trust village. In 1951 the parish had a population of 60. There is a village school, Cambo First School, which had 46 pupils in September 2020 aged 4-9 years. There is a church, a village hall and a community orchard in the village.

Governance

Cambo was formerly a

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and

chapelry A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century. Status It had a similar status to a township but was so named as it had a chapel of ease (chapel) which was the communi ...

in Hartburn parish, from 1866 Cambo was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1955 and merged with Wallington Demesne.

Notable people

Capability Brown Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English la ...

, the 18th-century landscape gardener, was educated at the village school. He was born at nearby

Kirkharle Kirkharle (otherwise Kirk Harle) is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kirkwhelpington, in the county of Northumberland in Northern England located about west of the town of Morpeth, just to the west of the crossroads of th ...

References

External links

Panoramic Photographs by Peter Loud of Village and Holy Trinity Church, Cambo.
Villages in Northumberland Former civil parishes in Northumberland {{Northumberland-geo-stub