Places to see in ( Haltwhistle - UK )
Places to see in ( Haltwhistle - UK )
Haltwhistle is a small town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, 10 miles east of Brampton, near Hadrian's Wall. It had a population of 3,811 at the 2011 Census. Stone-built houses are a feature of Haltwhistle. It is one of two settlements in Great Britain which claim to be the exact geographic centre of the island, along with Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire, 71 miles (114 km) to the south.
The name Haltwhistle has nothing to do with a railway stop. Early forms of the name are Hautwesel (1240), Hautwysel (1254), Hawtewysill (1279), Hautwysell (1381), Haltwesell (Speede 1610). The second part -twistle relates to two streams or rivers. It derives from two Old English words twicce or twise, 'twice', 'division into two' and wella, 'stream, brook'. The second word is reduced in the compound word to ull, making twicculla, twisella. All but one of the examples in place names represent a high tongue of land between two streams where they join.
Haltwhistle was probably in existence in Roman times, as it is one of the closest approaches of the River South Tyne in its upland reaches to Hadrian's Wall. The old Roman road or Stanegate passes just two miles to the north of the town. The development of the town was based on its position on the main Newcastle to Carlisle road and on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway line.
The expansion of Haltwhistle in the 18th and 19th centuries was due to coal mining in the area and to a lesser extent the use of Haltwhistle as a loading point for metal ores coming from the mines on Alston Moor. In 1836 while some workmen were quarrying stone for the Directors of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, on the top of Barcombe, a high hill in the township of Thorngrafton and Parish of Haltwhistle, one of them found a copper vessel containing 63 coins, 3 of them gold and 60 copper. The gold coins were, one of Claudius Caesar, reverse Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus; one of Nero and one of Vespasian. The find is known as the Thorngrafton Hoard and the empty arm-purse can still be seen in the museum at Chesters Fort.
Haltwhistle was a market town for the exchange of local goods. In the 18th century two Quakers set up a baize manufactury and there was a weaving establishment. On the Haltwhistle Burn were fulling mills, dyeing and spinning mills. A walk along this stream to the Roman Wall, shows that it must have been a hive of industry with quarries, coal mining and lime burning kilns. The Directory of 1822 (Pigot) gives a whole range of craftsmen, shopkeepers and traders—60 in number, including makers of clogs. The weekly market was held on Thursdays and there were fairs on 14 May and 22 November for cattle and sheep.
Hadrian's Wall to the north of the town is used as a major selling point for the town. The section of the wall closest to Haltwhistle is among the most spectacular and complete, with the wall striding eastwards from the lake at Crag Lough along the spine of the Whin Sill.
The remains of Haltwhistle Castle and the series of Bastles, and Haltwhistle Tower. Haltwhistle also claims to be at the geographic centre of Britain – equidistant from the sea as measured along the principal points of the compass. A hotel in the centre of Haltwhistle is named the Centre of Britain Hotel in recognition of this claim. The claim is rather tenuous as it requires that the northern extremity is taken to be Orkney rather than Shetland. Depending on how the centre of the island is calculated, however, the centre can be said to be Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire. See centre points of the United Kingdom.
There are many historic properties nearby, including Featherstone Castle, Blenkinsop Castle, Unthank Hall, Bellister Castle, Coanwood Friends Meeting House, and Thirlwall Castle. Haltwhistle Viaduct lies to the south of the railway station and was the first major feature on the Alston Line to Alston, Cumbria.
The town is served by Haltwhistle railway station on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, also known as the Tyne Valley Line. The line was opened in 1838, and links the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in Tyne and Wear with Carlisle in Cumbria. The line follows the course of the River Tyne through Northumberland.
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Ransome and Marles Newark-On-Trent attack Friday 7th March 1941
Bert Emerson helped rescue other survivors of the bombing at Ransome and Marles Newark-On-Trent on 7th March 1941. The factory was targeted because it made ball bearings for the defence in our country. Exhibition of Ransome and Marles at the Chapel Interpretation Centre at Newark Cemetery open by appointment.
Newark in the Second World War records the events surrounding the bombing of the Ransome and Marles bearing factory at Newark-on-Trent. On Friday 7th March 1941 the most well known of all the raids on [Newark-On-Trent] took place when Ransome and Marles factory was bombed. The type of work carried out at the factory made it an obvious target.
Roll Call of Names that died
Newark Cemetery tours of the Ransome & Marles 30 are buried out of 41 that died. Memorial Cross will posted at each grave.
Newark Ransome and Marles' Factory air raid, 7th March 1941.
Newark's R&M Roll Of Honour
Names that died
1, George Harold Henry Adams, aged 45 * (ED307)
2, Wilfred Evelyn Andrew, aged 39 * (ED303)
3, Olive Ash, aged 31 * O (EK253)
4, Bertie Augustus Ball, aged 18 * O (EQ207)
5, Ernest Patrick Beale, aged 27, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment (Private) * (WG288)
6, Edward Beaver, aged 26 (Buried in Mansfield) with no Tombstone
7, Harold Vincent Brown, aged 44 * (EQ149)
8, Vivian Maud Castle, aged 18 (Buried All Saints Church Elston)
9, Enid Winifred Hall Cooper, aged 30 ( Buried in Balderton in St Giles Church Yard)
10, Edna May Cottam, aged 19 * (WT303)
11, Gladys Cummings, aged 21 * (ED305)
12, William Joseph Dixey, aged 62 * (EO145)
13, Frederick Fowler, aged 39 - Lived on Long Street Great Gonerby, Grantham - is buried in the Churchyard of St Sebastians C of E Church, Great Gonerby, Grantham
14, George William Godridge, aged 29 * O (EH247)
15, Robert Barnsdale Grant, aged 47, his son Chris was only five when his Father died, he became Newark town mayor 50 years later in 1991-1992 * (EG237
16, John Henry Green, aged 55, Volunteer Home Guard, 11th Nottinghamshire (Newark) * (WG308)
17, Horace Grocock, aged 47 ( Buried in Barnby in the Willow)
18, Albert Robert Gyde, aged 42* (WS305)
19, Rose Ellen Hall, aged 30 * O (EI151)
20, James Hazelby Hanger, aged 29 * (WR300)
21, Thomas McHallam Hardie, aged 26 * (ED304)
22, Sybil Harriet Hayden, aged 34 of Ivy Farm Cottage Kirklington Newark Notts buried at Hatfield Hyde Cemetery Hollybush Lane, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL7 4JU -
23, Joyce May Kirton, aged 18 (Buried In Long Bennington)
24, Lily Lambert, aged 22 * O (EH249)
25, George Felix Lambley, aged 39 * (WD178)
26, Edith Makins, aged 21 ( Buried in South Collingham) - located
27, Frederick William Mann, aged 46 * O - (EG238)
28, Frederick Markwell, aged 50 (St Giles Churchyard Balderton )
29, Claude Ware Hannah Martin, aged 36 * (WT178)
30, Edward E. Martin, aged 46 * (ED302)
31, Richard Naylor, aged 25 * WC175)
32, Frederick William Packwood, aged 52 * (WS304)
33, William Thomas Pepper, aged 18, Buried in Caunton Churchyard
34, Frederick Richards, aged 32 * O (WL306)
35, Alfred Mayfield Ridge, aged 68 * O -WF309)
36, Reginald William Senior, aged 35, died on the 8th March 1941 * (WQ305
37, George Swanwick, aged 38 * O (EQ257)
38, Norah Trueblood, aged 34, * (WP305)
39, Esther Evelyn Varney, aged 19, (never found) Street will be named Esther Varney Place, Newark NG24 1FU
40, William Warner, aged 51 * (WB282)
41, Arthur Worrell, aged 31 * (ED306)
Newark's tribute, we will Remember the people that died during Ransome and Marles Bombing. 41 were killed 30 are buried in Newark Cemetery Nottinghamshire* A Star Buried in Newark Cemetery 21 in total have a Tombstone. 9 have a O after names that do not have a Tombstone, in a unmarked grave. I have located most of the graves.
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