Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SCREMERSTON

SCREMERSTON, a township in Ancroft parish, and a chapelry partly also in Tweedmouth parish, Northumberland. The township lies on the North-eastern railway, 3½ miles S S E of Berwick-upon-Tweed; and has a r.station. The chapelry was constituted in 1844; and its post town is Berwick-upon-Tweed. Rated property, £4, 357. Pop., 1, 227. Houses, 214. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £160.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of D. The church is ancient and good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Northumberland AncC
Place: Scremerston

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