Beanley

Beanley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hedgeley in the county of Northumberland, England. It is situated to the north-west of Alnwick, near Eglingham. In 1951 the parish had a population of 53.^[1]

Beanley
Beanley Hall
Beanley Location within Northumberland
OS grid reference	NU085185
Civil parish	Hedgeley
Unitary authority	Northumberland
Shire county	Northumberland
Region	North East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ALNWICK
Postcode district	NE66
Police	Northumbria
Fire	Northumberland
Ambulance	North East
UK Parliament	Berwick-upon-Tweed
List of places UK England Northumberland 55.460°N 1.867°W / 55.460; -1.867

In 1870–1872, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Beanley as "a township in Eglingham parish, Northumberland; on the river Breamish, 7 miles NW of Alnwick. Acres, 2,341. Pop., 116. Houses, 23. The earls of Dunbar anciently held it on the tenure of maintaining a road into Scotland. A cross stands on Hedgeley-moor, at a short distance from the village, erected to the memory of Sir Ralph Percy, who fell in 1464 in a battle with the Yorkists."

Governance

Beanley is in the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Beanley was formerly a township in Eglingham parish,^[2] from 1866 Beanley was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1955 and merged with Hedgeley.^[3]

See also

• Bewick and Beanley Moors SSSI