South Charlton is a small village and former

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, now in the parish of

Eglingham Eglingham is a village in Northumberland, England, situated about north-west of Alnwick and from Wooler. It lies in the sheltered valley of the Eglingham Burn, a tributary of the River Aln, about above sea level, in a rural conservation ar ...

, in the county of

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, England, north-west of

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. In 1951 the parish had a population of 82. The parish church of St. James, South Charlton was built in 1862 by James Deason of London for the 4th

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, in an Early English style. It is a Grade II listed building. Two miles (3.2 km) south-east of the village, on the slopes of Heifer Law, is Heiferlaw Tower, a ruined fifteenth-century

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built by the monks of Alnwick Abbey.

Governance

South Charlton was formerly a

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and

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in Ellingham parish, from 1866 South Charlton was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1955 and merged with Eglingham.

Notable people

* Harold Fawcus (1876–1947), British Army general and first-class cricketer

References

External links

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