45-680: Blyth Harbour Wind Farm is a coastal wind farm located in East Bedlington along the East Pier of the Port of Blyth . Commissioned in January 1993 it consists of nine 0.3 MW WindMaster turbines giving a total capacity of 2.7 MW. It was developed by AMEC Wind and is owned by Hainsford Developments (Blyth Harbour) Limited. In January 2008 consent was granted to replace the existing nine turbines with seven new ones. Six of these would generate 2.5 MW each, and
90-426: A biography of Saint Cuthbert , where it appears as "Bedlingtun". The name means "the town of Bedla's people". Bedlington and the hamlets belonging to it were bought by Cutheard , Bishop of Durham, between 900 and 915, and although locally in the county of Northumberland, it became part of the county palatine (from Lat. palatium , a palace) of Durham, over which Bishop Walcher was granted royal rights by William
135-524: A large one (the English Maelor area) south-east of Wrexham in Denbighshire, and a single parish exclave ( Marford and Hoseley ) north of Wrexham. The 1844 Act had transferred the detached parts to different counties, but not to different parishes. Unless the detached part was an entire parish, this resulted in many cases of a detached part in one county belonging to a parish having its main territory in
180-502: A post office, and several other smaller shops. A weekly market is held on Thursdays at the market place. The number of market stalls is now also starting to decline. The nearest airport is Newcastle Airport , which provides scheduled domestic flights, flights covering many major cities in Europe, long haul international flights and holiday charter flights. There is a port in nearby North Shields with daily passenger services to IJmuiden in
225-484: A primary school at the start of the summer 2021 term. Pupils may also commute around 13 miles (21 km) south to Newcastle upon Tyne if they choose to attend an independent school. One of the most important surviving historic buildings is the Anglican parish church, which is dedicated to St. Cuthbert . It is reputed that the church takes its dedication from an event that occurred 12 December 1069: fleeing northwards from
270-508: A remedy for the inconvenience and perplexity which resulted from having certain parcels of land belonging to particular counties situated at a considerable distance from these counties". The Bill was allowed to be read, but did not pass. However, the process resulted in the publication in May 1825 of the "County Boundary: Returns from Clerks of the Peace of Insulated Parcels of Land". Each county's clerk of
315-400: A seventh larger one would produce 7.58 MW (if it is an Enercon E-126 )and be the largest land-based turbine in Europe at 163 m (535 ft) tall. As of September 2012, the first new turbine became operational, producing up to 3.4 MW of power (more than the original nine turbines combined). The turbine is a REpower 3.4M104, with a 76 m hub height. This article about a wind farm
360-428: A survey in the year 1765...that a small part of the parish of Studham ...is locally situate in the county of Hertford. Actually, Studham was equally divided between the two counties and the exclave that the clerk was referring to belonged to Whipsnade . This sort of mistake illustrates the difficulties in drafting the specific changes to be dealt with by the 1844 Act. The Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 abolished
405-551: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a British power station is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bedlington Bedlington is a town and former civil parish in Northumberland , England, with a population of 18,470 measured at the 2011 Census. Bedlington is an ancient market town, with a rich history of industry and innovative residents. Located roughly 10 miles northeast of Newcastle and Newcastle Airport, Bedlington
450-642: Is about 3 miles (4.8 km) from the town centre and provides connectivity to Scotland and London. The town also has other roads like the A193, A1068, A1147 and the B1331. Bedlington is served by two secondary schools: Bedlington Academy (previously Bedlingtonshire Community High School) and St Benet Biscop Catholic Academy . They are both in Bedlington, but they do take in children from Stakeford , Guide Post , Choppington , Stannington and even areas of Morpeth . Bedlington
495-494: Is also served by three primary schools: Bedlington Station Primary School, Stead Lane Primary School and St Bede's Primary School. One of the few middle schools left in England is Meadowdale Academy. This is soon to change however as Meadowdale is to change to a primary school. The town of Bedlington also has two first schools: Whitley Memorial C of E School and Bedlington West End County First School. Whitley Memorial C of E School became
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#1732930844160540-551: Is currently made up of Georgian and Victorian buildings. At key points in history, before and during the Industrial Revolution , goods made in Bedlington made it to all corners of the globe through the distribution of nails and trains that were made in Bedlington from some 250 years ago. With large industry first being attracted to Bedlington over 250 years ago, in the form of its iron works, mining became an intrinsic part of Bedlington from 1838. The coal industry remained at
585-550: Is currently underway on the construction of the Northumberland Line , which will reinstate passenger railway services from Ashington to Bedlington, Blyth , Seaton Delaval , Shiremoor and Newcastle . Passenger services are currently scheduled to begin operation in Bedlington in late 2024 or early 2025. The A189 Spine Road sits about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of the town centre and links Ashington, Blyth, Cramlington, Killingworth , Gosforth and Newcastle. The A1
630-679: Is detached from the main Body of such County shall be considered for all Purposes as forming Part of that County of which it is considered a Part for the Purposes of the Election of Members to serve in Parliament as Knights of the Shire [...] The Act went on to state (s. 2) that the parts transferred would be incorporated in an existing: Hundred , Wapentake , Ward , Rape , Lathe , or other like Division by which it
675-625: Is roughly 10 minutes from the A1 road , in southeast Northumberland. Other nearby places include Morpeth to the northwest, Ashington to the northeast, Blyth to the east and Cramlington to the south. In 1961 the parish had a population of 29,403. The town has evidence of habitation from the Bronze Age , with a burial site being located just behind what is now the main Front Street. A cluster of Bronze Age cist burials were discovered during excavation of
720-573: Is wholly or for the most Part surrounded, or to which it is next adjoining, in the County to which it will thenceforth belong, unless the Justices of the County, [...] shall declare it to be a new or separate Hundred or other like Division [...]. The Act itself did not list the areas transferred; these had already been detailed in "Schedule M" of the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 . Despite
765-648: The Liberty to the Aldersgate Ward of the City of London at the behest of the City authorities, who had complained for centuries about the alleged criminality and actual commercial freedom of the inhabitants. The Act was for the building of a new General Post Office in the Liberty. However, the few electors left in residence were still under Westminster and this illustrated the need for multiple parliamentary interventions to deal with
810-508: The Netherlands . The town's main bus operator is Arriva North East. Arriva links Bedlington to Ashington, Morpeth, Cramlington, Blyth, Stakeford and Newcastle. The X21/X22 bus services link Ashington, Guide Post, Bedlington Station, Regent Centre , Gosforth and Newcastle Haymarket. The X21/X22 provides a combined 10 minute service on Monday - Friday daytimes. The 2 bus service link Morpeth, Guide Post, Bedlington Station and Blyth. Construction
855-468: The 1832 Act, apart from County Durham those counties with large multi-parish exclaves, such as Derbyshire , Flintshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire , had them left alone. The Act made no provision to exchange territory in compensation for lost exclaves, and those counties which would have lost a substantial proportion of territory were either completely left alone ( Flintshire ) or mostly so ( Worcestershire ). Many smaller exclaves were overlooked in
900-510: The 1844 Act ignored them. The wording of the Act was effective in dealing with exclaves wholly or mostly surrounded by a single other county, but not for examples with approximately equal borders of two other counties. For example, the Herefordshire exclave of Ffwddog bordered Monmouthshire and Brecknockshire , and was left alone. An exclave containing territories belonging to more than one parish
945-662: The Conqueror . When these rights were taken from Cuthbert Tunstall , Bishop of Durham, in 1536, Bedlington among his other properties, lost its special privileges, but was confirmed to him in 1541 with the other property of his predecessors. Together with the other lands of the see of Durham, Bedlington was made over to the ecclesiastical commissioners in 1866. Bedlingtonshire was made part of Northumberland for civil purposes by acts of parliament in 1832 and 1844 . Bedlington became an industrial town with an iron works and several coal mines, however subsequent closure of these industries in
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#1732930844160990-586: The Conqueror's army, the monks of Durham are said to have rested the body of St Cuthbert in Bedlington Church. The building, originally of Saxon design, was rebuilt about a hundred years later. Little of either the Saxon or the Norman church has survived. There is a Roman Catholic congregation who worship in a relatively new church called St Bede's. In addition, there is a Salvation Army chapel. Hartford Hall lies within
1035-622: The Counties of York and Nottingham"). Muddle could be a factor in exclaves being left alone. Northamptonshire had eight small exclaves in the Huntingdonshire parish of Great Catworth , which were reported by the confused clerk of the peace of the latter county in 1825 as the county's enclaves when he had been asked to report on exclaves. The 1832 schedule listed them as exclaves of Huntingdonshire in Northamptonshire (back to front), and
1080-453: The County to give the information with accuracy. The Ordnance Survey First Series maps were a "work in progress", and his colleague in Bedfordshire was frank in admitting his reliance on a commercial map of no legal standing and of questionable accuracy: I have no official knowledge of the boundaries of the county. But it appears, on reference to the large engraved map of the County upon
1125-538: The boundary in the process of re-distributing land to the various landowners. Two parishes mentioned in the 1844 Act had been subject to this procedure: Stratton Audley in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire (1770), and Farndish in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire (1800). On the other hand, an Inclosure Act could leave such county boundary anomalies alone – and so they would appear as ghost field strips on
1170-523: The county outliers for the purposes of fixing the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies . This was in the context of the Reform Act 1832 . Previously each county, including its exclaves (but excluding its boroughs ) elected two knights of the shire to the House of Commons. This Act included a schedule ("Schedule M") of county boundary anomalies to be acted upon, drawn up by a boundary commission headed by
1215-651: The drawing up of the 1832 schedule and so were ignored in the 1844 Act, for example the small exclaves of the Buckinghamshire parishes of Drayton Beauchamp and Marsworth in Hertfordshire . Similarly, the chaotic meeting of Nottinghamshire , Lincolnshire and Yorkshire at Auckley and Misson was ignored despite the Ordnance Survey First Series 1841 not attempting to show boundaries (and giving despairing notes instead, e.g.: "Township of Auckley in
1260-415: The heart of the town until the closure of the mines in the 1980s. Today Bedlington's Front Street is host to a number of well-established eating and drinking venues, and there is an emergence of new establishments and retailers entering the town. The parish of Bedlington constituted the historic exclave of County Durham called Bedlingtonshire. The place-name "Bedlington" is first attested circa 1050 in
1305-525: The issues thrown up by exclaves. The systematic involvement of the House of Commons began in February 1825, when Charles Fyshe Palmer, Member of Parliament for Reading , moved a private member's bill entitled "County Transfer of Land Bill": To empower magistrates at quarter sessions to effect Exchanges between counties of insulated parcels of Land, for the more convenient administration of justice. To provide
1350-497: The latter half of the 20th century caused the town to undergo many changes, becoming more of a dormitory town for those working in the surrounding areas. The last of the residential housing estates, formerly built for the mining families of the town, were taken over and razed by the council with residents evicted from the 'Pit Rows' estate in the early to mid 1970s, as was part and parcel of the government's national policy of this time. The most important historic building in Bedlington
1395-519: The map, overlaying the hedged fields of the parliamentary enclosure. Pirton in Bedfordshire was enclosed in 1818, but the field-strip Bedfordshire exclaves of Shillington survived in this way to be dealt with by the 1844 Act. A special case occupied Parliament's attention in 1815. The Liberty of St Martin's Le Grand was situated in the City of London , but was part of the borough of Westminster and an exclave of Middlesex . An Act of 1815 annexed
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1440-600: The parish. Much of the riverside land between Bedlington and the hall forms the Bedlington Country Park, a designated local nature reserve . Local newspapers include the Evening Chronicle and the Journal , which also cover Tyneside and the rest of southeast Northumberland. The Newspost Leader is weekly and covers most of the former district of Wansbeck . The community-run Bedlington Website Bedlington.co.uk
1485-437: The peace had been asked to report on their county's exclaves ("insulated parcels"), together with their valuations for land tax and county rate purposes. Their replies were collected and printed. The process was not altogether satisfactory, witness the return of the Hertfordshire clerk: There is much difficulty in answering the inquiries with any certainty. I do not know of any person having sufficient local knowledge of
1530-502: The prescriptive nature of Section 1 of the Act, its powers were applied in a discretionary manner and following the provisions of "Schedule M" of the 1832 Act – which was not a comprehensive list of extant exclaves. The Act affected twenty-seven counties. The largest changes were to County Durham , which lost substantial territory to Northumberland , as well as a single parish to Yorkshire . However, by no means all detached areas were changed: fifteen counties still had exclaves . As with
1575-625: The question of jurisdiction open as regards exclaves surrounded by more than one county. Police constabularies established under the County Police Act 1839 were given jurisdiction over detached parts of other counties within their county territory in the same manner. Section 1 of the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 read in part as follows: [F]rom and after the Twentieth Day of October next every Part of any County in England or Wales which
1620-467: The site in the 1930s. St Cuthbert's Church is the longest standing building in the town, with parts of this dating back to the 11th century and recently celebrated being 1000 years old. The church is in the heart of the original sandstone conservation town centre. Most of the medieval town has disappeared with many of the historic buildings and factories being demolished over the years, but there are still nods to medieval street layouts. The main Front Street
1665-455: The surveyor Thomas Drummond . This schedule included a few examples of salients and divided parishes, as well as true exclaves, and was to be used in the 1844 Act. The Census (Great Britain) Act 1830 (also known as the "Population Act", 11 Geo. IV 30, prescribed the 1831 Census . This Act requested a schedule to be prepared by the Census Office as regards county boundary anomalies, which
1710-520: The surviving outlying parts changed their administration in the 1890s following the passing of the Local Government Act 1894 , which made the legal process easier. Large detached blocks of Warwickshire and Worcestershire , interspersed with Gloucestershire , remained until 1931. Dudley in Worcestershire remained an exclave until 1966, while Flintshire retained two exclaves until 1974 –
1755-479: Was Bedlington Old Hall, which consisted of a 15th-century pele tower with a long early 18th-century stone block adjoining, occupying a prime location on the high street. It was controversially demolished in 1959 and replaced with council offices, which are now themselves empty and for sale. The parish was abolished on 1 April 1974 and became an unparished area in Wansbeck district. The town has three supermarkets,
1800-544: Was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which eliminated many outliers or exclaves of counties in England and Wales for civil purposes. The changes were based on recommendations by a boundary commission , headed by the surveyor Thomas Drummond and summarized in a schedule attached to the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 . This also listed a few examples of civil parishes divided by county boundaries, most of which were dealt with by later legislation. This Act
1845-400: Was challenged as erroneous and cancelled. Two boundary disputes, between Cornwall and Devon and Derbyshire and Cheshire , were resolved using the Act although no exclaves or salients were involved. Finally, there were a few strange cases involving divided parishes which were either errors or had ulterior motives, such as Studley in Buckinghamshire transferred to Oxfordshire . Many of
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1890-550: Was listed by the Act as separate legal cases under the parish names concerned, such as the Thorncombe exclave of Devon containing territory belonging to Axminster – this was one exclave, not two. Several border anomalies were addressed which were outside the Act's strict remit because they were not exclaves. Some salients were abolished, and one example of such a transfer ( Oxenwood in Berkshire , surrounded mostly by Wiltshire )
1935-518: Was published in 1833 under the title "Irregularities of Boundary of the Several Counties in England and Wales". This detailed all known examples of county boundaries dividing parishes as well as of exclaves. Two Acts of Parliament of 1839 addressed the problems associated with law enforcement in county exclaves: The Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1839 allowed justices of the peace to act for enclaves surrounded by their county, although this left
1980-460: Was repealed in its entirety by the Local Government Act 1972 . The areas involved had already been reorganised for some purposes. This was a process which began with the Inclosure Acts of the later 18th century. A parish on a county boundary which used the open-field system could have its field strips distributed among the two counties in a very complicated way. Enclosure could rationalise
2025-679: Was started in 1998. It has been active in many of the recent initiatives to promote the town. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Newcastle , Capital North East , Heart North East , Smooth North East , Hits Radio North East , and Koast Radio, a community based station. Local television news programmes are provided by ITV News Tyne Tees and BBC Look North . Bedlington is twinned with Schalksmühle in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany. Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 The Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 ( 7 & 8 Vict. c. 61), which came into effect on 20 October 1844,
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