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| Ancroft | Ancroft | Whellan’s Directory | on Sheets | A small village situated | ||
| Ancroft | Mr George Smith | 7.9 & | on the turnpike road, leading | |||
| Ancroft | Revd Wm Hewitt, Ancroft | 7.13 | from Berwick, to Wooler &c | |||
| former. It would appear to have | ||||||
| been at one time of considerable | ||||||
| importance, as there are still | ||||||
| to be seen the sites of many | ||||||
| houses, that have been removed. | ||||||
| It is now reduced to a few Cottages, | ||||||
| there are in it an ancient | ||||||
| church, Parsonage, National | ||||||
| School, small Public house | ||||||
| and Postoffice. Letters arrive | ||||||
| from Berwick at 1 P.m. | ||||||
| John McCabe |
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