Hebron is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

north of

Morpeth Morpeth may refer to: *Morpeth, New South Wales, Australia ** Electoral district of Morpeth, a former electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales * Morpeth, Ontario, Canada * Morpeth, Northumberland, England, UK ** Morpeth (UK ...

, in the county of

Northumberland Northumberland () is a county in Northern England, one of two counties in England which border with Scotland. Notable landmarks in the county include Alnwick Castle, Bamburgh Castle, Hadrian's Wall and Hexham Abbey. It is bordered by land on ...

, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 422. The parish touches

Longhirst Longhirst is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England, located approximately northeast of the town of Morpeth. It originally developed as an estate village serving Longhirst Hall, a Grade II* listed building built in 1824 by archite ...

, Meldon, Mitford, Morpeth,

Netherwitton Netherwitton is a village in Northumberland, England about west north west of Morpeth. A former cotton-mill now converted into residential housing, the old village school also converted into a house, an old bridge, a small church, and a number ...

Pegswood Pegswood is a historic mining village and civil parish in Northumberland, England, and the site of the former Pegswood Colliery. Pegswood is two miles (3 km) east of Morpeth and three miles (5 km) west of Ashington, with a population ...

Tritlington and West Chevington Tritlington is a hamlet and former civil parish about 4 miles from Morpeth, now in the parish of Tritlington and West Chevington, in the county of Northumberland, England. Until 2009 Tritlington was in Castle Morpeth district. In 1961 the parish ...

and

Ulgham Ulgham ( ) is a small village in Northumberland, England. It is known as the 'village of the owls'. History The name, first mentioned in 1139 as ''Wlacam'', is from the Old English ''ūle'' "owl" and ''hwamm'' "nook (of land)", and so means ...

. Until April 2009 the parish was in

Castle Morpeth Castle Morpeth was a Non-metropolitan district, local government district and borough in Northumberland, England. Its administrative centre was the town of Morpeth, Northumberland, Morpeth. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger ...

district. The surname "Hebron" derives from Hebron.

Landmarks

There are 9 listed buildings in Hebron. Hebron has a church called St Cuthbert.

History

The name "Hebron" means 'The high burial-mound'. The parish included the

townships A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

Causey Park Causey may refer to: Places * Causey, England, a village in County Durham, England *Causey Mounth, an ancient drovers' road over the coastal fringe ofAberdeenshire, Scotland *Causey, New Mexico, a village in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United S ...

Cockle Park Cockle may refer to: * Cockle (bivalve), an edible, marine bivalve mollusc * ''Lolium temulentum'' (also cockle), an annual plant of the family Poaceae * Berwick cockle, a white-coloured sweet with red stripes * ''Cockle'', a codename for the fol ...

Earsdon Earsdon is a village in the borough of North Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It sits on the border of Northumberland, which it is historically part of, and is approximately two miles from Whitley Bay. The village had a populati ...

Earsdon Forest Earsdon is a village in the borough of North Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It sits on the border of Northumberland, which it is historically part of, and is approximately two miles from Whitley Bay. The village had a populati ...

, Fenrother and

Tritlington Tritlington is a hamlet and former civil parish about 4 miles from Morpeth, now in the parish of Tritlington and West Chevington, in the county of Northumberland, England. Until 2009 Tritlington was in Castle Morpeth district. In 1961 the parish ...

. On 1 April 1955 the parishes of Benridge, Cockle Park and

High and Low Highlaws High may refer to: Science and technology * Height * High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area * High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory * High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift to ...

were abolished and merged with Hebron.

References

External links

* Villages in Northumberland Civil parishes in Northumberland {{Northumberland-geo-stub