Longframlington is a small village in
Northumberland
Northumberland ( ) is a ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North East England, on the Anglo-Scottish border, border with Scotland. It is bordered by the North Sea to the east, Tyne and Wear and County Durham to the south, Cumb ...
, England, located on the
A697, north-west of
Morpeth and south-east of
Rothbury.
Longframlington is a former pit village and on the site of the pit now stands Fram Park, a log cabin holiday park.
The village was previously the site of the Longframlington Music Festival.
Landmarks
A branch of the
Roman road
Roman roads ( ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Em ...
,
Dere Street, known as the
Devil's Causeway, passes close by Longframlington en route to
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 recor ...
, and the mounds visible on the Hall Hill in the angle of the Pauperhaugh and Weldon Bridge roads may be those of a Roman camp.
is a country
manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were usually held the lord's manorial courts, communal mea ...
which was built around 1730 and is a Grade II
listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...
.
Longframlington has a
Tank Turn in the local park, used during WW2.
Religious sites
The church of St Mary the Virgin dates from the late 12th century and until 1891 was a
chapel of ease
A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church architecture, church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently, generally due to trav ...
to
Felton; since that date Longframlington has been an independent parish. The church was carefully restored in the late 19th century retaining its fine
Norman chancel arch.
St Mary the Virgin
Retrieved 17 November 2008
The church is identified as being dedicated to St. Laurence on maps of Longframlington shown on website Communities.Northumberland.gov.uk (Longframlington - Ordnance maps) dated 1897 and 1920.
References
External links
The Swarland Chronicles: Independent Online Magazine
(Accessed: 17 November 2008)
(Accessed: 17 November 2008)
Villages in Northumberland
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