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civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

es in the

ceremonial county The counties and areas for the purposes of the lieutenancies, also referred to as the lieutenancy areas of England and informally known as ceremonial counties, are areas of England to which lords-lieutenant are appointed. Legally, the areas i ...

Northumberland Northumberland () is a county in Northern England, one of two counties in England which border with Scotland. Notable landmarks in the county include Alnwick Castle, Bamburgh Castle, Hadrian's Wall and Hexham Abbey. It is bordered by land ...

, England. The whole of the county is parished.

List of parishes

* Acklington * Acomb * Adderstone with Lucker *

Akeld Akeld is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. It is situated around to the west of Wooler and from the border with Scotland at Coldstream. The village lies on the northern limit of Northumberland National Park and on the fo ...

* Allendale *

Alnham Alnham is a hamlet and civil parish in Northumberland, England. It is about west of Alnwick, about from Scotland and is located on the south of a small tributary of the River Aln. The village stands on uneven ground, sloping from south to ...

* Alnmouth *

Alnwick Alnwick ( ) is a market town in Northumberland, England, of which it is the traditional county town. The population at the 2011 Census was 8,116. The town is on the south bank of the River Aln, south of Berwick-upon-Tweed and the Scottish bor ...

(town) * Alwinton * Amble by the Sea (town) * Ancroft * Ashington (town)The Wansbeck (Parishes) Order 2009
Retrieved 19 May 2010 *

Bamburgh Bamburgh ( ) is a village and civil parish on the coast of Northumberland, England. It had a population of 454 in 2001, decreasing to 414 at the 2011 census. The village is notable for the nearby Bamburgh Castle, a castle which was the seat o ...

* Bardon Mill * Bavington * Beadnell * Belford * Bellingham * Belsay *

Berwick-upon-Tweed Berwick-upon-Tweed (), sometimes known as Berwick-on-Tweed or simply Berwick, is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, and the northernmost town in England. The 2011 United Kingdom census re ...

(town)The Borough of Berwick upon Tweed (Parish Electoral Arrangements and Electoral Changes) Order 2008
/ref> * Bewick *

Biddlestone Biddlestone is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. It is about to the west of Alnwick. In the early 21st Century several of Northumberland's least populated parishes were merged to form slightly larger units. Biddlestone wa ...

* Birtley *

Blanchland Blanchland is a village in Northumberland, England, on the County Durham boundary. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 135. Set beside the river in a wooded section of the Derwent valley, Blanchland is an attractive smal ...

* Blyth *

Bowsden Bowsden is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. It is about to the south of Berwick-upon-Tweed, inland from the North Sea coast at Lindisfarne, and has a population of 157, rising to 178 at the 2011 Census. Landmark ...

* Branxton * Brinkburn * Broomhaugh and Riding *

Bywell Bywell is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. It is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne opposite Stocksfield, between Hexham and Newcastle. The parish has a population of around 380 and Newton is now its most populo ...

Callaly Callaly is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. It is about to the west of Alnwick. The main A697 road (to Morpeth) is away. It is on the line of the Roman road linking the Roman forts of High Rochester to the west and Le ...

* Capheaton * Carham *

Chatton Chatton is a village in Northumberland, in England. It is roughly to the east of Wooler. History Chatton has been occupied for many centuries. There has been a church on the site since the twelfth century. There is evidence of occupation i ...

* Chillingham * Chollerton *

Choppington Choppington is a large village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. It is situated 5 miles to the south-east of Morpeth, and north of Bedlington. It was at one time part of the three big mid-Northumberland collieries (Ashington, ...

Coanwood Coanwood is a village in Northumberland, England, and is part of the Parish of Haltwhistle. It is about to the south-west of Haltwhistle, on the South Tyne. Nearby is the village of Lambley. Coanwood was anciently written as Collingwood mean ...

* Corbridge *

Cornhill-on-Tweed Cornhill-on-Tweed is a small village and civil parish in Northumberland, England about to the east of Coldstream, Scotland. The hamlets of West Learmouth and East Learmouth are located to the south and west of the village respectively. Hist ...

* Corsenside *

Cramlington Cramlington is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, 6 miles (9 kilometres) north of Newcastle upon Tyne, and 10 miles (16 kilometres) north of its city centre. The name suggests a probable founding by the Danes or Anglo-Saxons. T ...

(town) * Craster * Cresswell * Denwick * Doddington * Duddo * Earle * East Bedlington *

East Chevington East Chevington is a parish in Northumberland, England, and was a village until it disappeared in the 1900s. In 2001, the parish had a population of 3,192, increasing to 3,951 at the 2011 Census. History The site of the village was inhabited ...

* Edlingham * Eglingham * Ellingham * Ellington and Linton * Elsdon * Embleton * Ewart * Falstone * Featherstone * Felton * Ford * Glanton * Greenhead *

Greystead Greystead is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England west of Bellingham. The population as of the 2011 census was less than 100. It shares a parish council with the adjacent civil parish of Tarset. Governance Greystead is i ...

* Haltwhistle (town) * Harbottle * Hartburn * Hartleyburn * Hauxley * Haydon * Healey *

Hebron Hebron ( ar, الخليل or ; he, חֶבְרוֹן ) is a Palestinian. city in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judaean Mountains, it lies above sea level. The second-largest city in the West Bank (after Eas ...

* Heddon-on-the-Wall * Hedgeley * Hedley * Henshaw *

Hepple Hepple is a small village and parish in rural Northumberland, west of Rothbury, which provides most of its local services. It is on the edge of the Northumberland National Park, and lies on the bank of the river Coquet, at a location which wa ...

* Hepscott * Hesleyhurst *

Hexham Hexham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the south bank of the River Tyne, formed by the confluence of the North Tyne and the South Tyne at Warden nearby, and close to Hadrian's Wall. Hexham was the administra ...

(town) * Hexhamshire * Hollinghill *

Holy Island Sacred space, sacred ground, sacred place, sacred temple, holy ground, or holy place refers to a location which is deemed to be sacred or hallowed. The sacredness of a natural feature may accrue through tradition or be granted through a bles ...

Horncliffe Horncliffe is a village in the county of Northumberland, England. It lies on the south bank of the River Tweed about south west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and about north east of Norham and is the most northerly village in England. Governa ...

* Horsley * Humshaugh * Ilderton * Ingram * Kielder * Kilham * Kirknewton *

Kirkwhelpington Kirkwhelpington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Northumberland about northeast of Hexham. It is on the River Wansbeck alongside the A696 trunk road between Otterburn and Ponteland. History Kirkwhelpington has mediev ...

* Knaresdale with Kirkhaugh * Kyloe * Lesbury * Lilburn * Longframlington * Longhirst *

Longhorsley Longhorsley is a village in Northumberland, England about northwest of Morpeth, and about south of Alnwick. The A697 road passes through the village linking it with Morpeth, Wooler and Coldstream in Scotland. There are 8 "Streets" in Longhorsl ...

Longhoughton Longhoughton is a small rural village in Northumberland, England. It lies near the coast, about northeast of Alnwick, in the similarly named parish of Longhoughton. The village lies under the spectacular whinstone outcrop, Ratcheugh Crag, ne ...

* Lowick * Lynemouth *

Matfen Matfen is a village and a civil parish in Northumberland, England, near the town of Hexham and the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is an example of a 19th-century planned estate village. It was the birthplace of the 7th Premier of British Colum ...

* Meldon * Melkridge * Middleton * Milfield * Mitford * Morpeth (town) * Netherton *

Netherwitton Netherwitton is a village in Northumberland, England about west north west of Morpeth. A former cotton-mill now converted into residential housing, the old village school also converted into a house, an old bridge, a small church, and a numb ...

* Newbiggin by the Sea *

Newbrough Newbrough is a village in Northumberland, England, on the north bank of the River South Tyne about north-west of Hexham. History Newbrough is the site of one of the line of Roman forts along the original northern frontier of the Roman Stanega ...

Newton-by-the-Sea Newton-by-the-Sea is a civil parish in the county of Northumberland in Northern England. The parish is about 8 miles northwest of Alnwick, and lies on the coast between the larger settlements of Embleton and Seahouses. Newton-by-the-Sea is in ...

* Newton-on-the-Moor and Swarland * Norham * North Sunderland *

Nunnykirk Nunnykirk is a settlement and civil parish in the county of Northumberland, England. Nunnykirk is the location of Nunnykirk Hall, a former nunnery country house and current school. Governance Nunnykirk was formerly a township in Nether W ...

* Ord * Otterburn * Ovingham * Ovington * Pegswood * Plenmeller with Whitfield *

Ponteland Ponteland ( ) is a large village and civil parish in Northumberland, England, north of Newcastle upon Tyne. The name means "island in the Pont", after the River Pont which flows from west to east and joins the River Blyth further downstream, be ...

(town) * Prudhoe (town) *

Rennington Rennington is a village in Northumberland, England about north of Alnwick. Governance Rennington is in the parliamentary A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subo ...

* Rochester * Roddam * Rothbury *

Rothley Rothley ( ) is a village and civil parish within the Borough of Charnwood in Leicestershire, England. Situated around west of the River Soar and north of Leicester, it had a population of 3,612 inhabitants . The population measured at the 201 ...

* Sandhoe * Seaton Valley (community) * Shilbottle *

Shoreswood Shoreswood is a place and civil parish about 6 miles from Berwick-upon-Tweed, in the county of Northumberland, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Shoresdean and Thornton. In 2011 the parish had a population of 148. The parish touches ...

* Shotley Low Quarter * Simonburn * Slaley * Snitter *

Stamfordham Stamfordham is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2001 Census was 1,047, rising to 1,185 at the 2011 Census. The place-name ''Stamfordham'' is first attested in the Pipe Rolls for ...

* Stannington * Stocksfield *

Tarset Tarset is a civil parish in Northumberland, England, created in 1955 from parts of Bellingham, Tarset West and Thorneyburn parishes. It is west-north-west of Bellingham. Today it shares a parish council with the adjacent parish of Greyste ...

* Thirlwall * Thirston * Thropton * Togston * Tritlington and West Chevington * Ulgham *

Wall A wall is a structure and a surface that defines an area; carries a load; provides security, shelter, or soundproofing; or, is decorative. There are many kinds of walls, including: * Walls in buildings that form a fundamental part of the s ...

Wallington Demesne __NOTOC__ Wallington may refer to: Places Australia * Wallington, Victoria United Kingdom * Wallington, Hampshire * Wallington, Hertfordshire * Wallington, London, a town in the London Borough of Sutton * Wallington, Northumberland, a National T ...

Warden A warden is a custodian, defender, or guardian. Warden is often used in the sense of a watchman or guardian, as in a prison warden. It can also refer to a chief or head official, as in the Warden of the Mint. ''Warden'' is etymologically identic ...

* Wark * Warkworth * West Allen * West Bedlington (town) * Whalton * Whittingham * Whittington * Whitton and Tosson *

Widdrington Station and Stobswood Widdrington Station and Stobswood is a civil parish in the county of Northumberland, England. It has 2,767 (as of 2011) and is north-northeast of Morpeth. It includes the settlements of ''Widdrington Station'' and ''Stobswood''. History Et ...

* Widdrington VillageDistrict Council notices of the change of name of a parish 2004
* Wooler * Wylam

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Office for National Statistics : Geographical Area Listings

Northumberland County Council : Parish and Town Councils
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