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Parish of Haltwhistle
Sheet 92 Plan 9

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Bellister Castle Bellister Castle Award plan 80 chains W A feudal Castle belonging to the
(Remains of) Bellister Castle List of County Voters of Plainmeller Norman period it has all the
Bellister Castle Revd Mr Ives Rectory Haltwhistle characteristics of fortified mansions
Bellister Castle Bellister Castle of that age, an embattled parapet
Bellister Castle Hutchinson’s View of Northumberland and apertures in the walls for
Bellister Castle Wallis’s Histy of Northumberland the use of archers. It stands upon
the summt of an artificial eminence
and commands an extensive view
along the valeey of the South Tyne;
the northern portion is in ruins, but the
South has been improved and is now
tenanted as a superior farm house,
the artificial mound has been defended by a
deep Fosse the remains of which
is still traceable
"Bellester Castle was the seat of the
younger branch of the Blenkinsopps of
Blenkinsopp Castle" Wallis’s Northumberland
Bellister Wood Mr Forester} 7 Chains S of
Bellister Wood Mr Foster } See Page B. Castle
Bellister Wood Mr Little } See Page 5
Newcastle & Carlisle Railway Newcastle & Carlisle Railway Property Plan date 1845 19 Chains S of A single line of Railway it leaves
(Alston Branch) Alston Branch Bellister Castle the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway at Haltwhistle
Newcastle & Carlisle Railway Time Bills and terminates at Alston in Cumberland
Alston Branch it is eligible for passenger and mineral
Newcastle & Carlisle Railway Mr Arthur Stationmaster traffic & is the property of the N. and Carlisle Railway
Alston Branch Haltwhistle Company
Newcastle & Carlisle Railway Mr Rutherford Inspector Rway
Alston Branch Slaggyford Alston
Thomas Jordan
Lance Corporal Royal Engineers

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