Anick ( ) is a village and former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...

, now in the parish of Sandhoe, in

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, England, situated to the north of

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 administ ...

. In 1881 the parish had a population of 153. Anick should not be confused with

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 bo ...

, pronounced ; a much larger town also in Northumberland, but some further north.

Governance

Anick was formerly a

township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...

in St. John Lee parish, from 1866 Anick was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 24 March 1887 and merged with Sandhoe.

References

Villages in Northumberland Former civil parishes in Northumberland {{Northumberland-geo-stub