Cambo is a village and former
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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
, now in the parish of
Wallington Demesne, in
Northumberland
Northumberland ( ) is a ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North East England, on the Anglo-Scottish border, border with Scotland. It is bordered by the North Sea to the east, Tyne and Wear and County Durham to the south, Cumb ...
, England. It is about to the west of the county town of
Morpeth at the junction of the
B6342 and
B6343 roads. The village was gifted along with the
Wallington Estate to the
National Trust
The National Trust () is a heritage and nature conservation charity and membership organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Trust was founded in 1895 by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley to "promote the ...
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
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
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
A chapelry had a similar status to a Township (England), township, but was so named as it had a chapel of ease ...
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, the 18th-century landscape gardener, was educated at the village school. He was born at nearby
Kirkharle.
References
External links
Panoramic Photographs by Peter Loud of Village and Holy Trinity Church, Cambo.
Villages in Northumberland
Former civil parishes in Northumberland
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