Printable Northumberland map

[pergamond]

I wondered if anyone knows of a downloadable map of Northumberland showing place names such as Wooler, Coldstream, Ingram, Alnwick, Whittingham, Eglingham and Shotton.

I have searched for quite some time online but so far haven't been able to find one that showed all of the places.

[c-side]

Some of these places are very small so I'm thinking that a map of a large enough scale to show them all would be too large to print on A4.

Christine

[Tickettyboo]

Do you just want to see all those places in relation to each other?
I put them all into Google Maps, asked for directions from the most northerly to the most southerly and took a screen grab of the route. (BTW Coldstream isn't in Northumberland, but in the Scottish Borders)

This was the result, its cheap and cheerful but it only took me about 3 mins :-)

Boo

oops realised when I posted that I'd missed out Eglingham so re-did the map

[pergamond]

Brilliant, thanks. So in 1796 was Coldstream considered to be Scotland or Northumberland, England?

Or were the Borders a separate place all of their own?

[c-side]

I'm impressed with the map, Boo, but I'm wondering whether the Shotton near Cramlington is the one Pergamond needs.  There is another one just across the National Park from Wooler, in Carham parish - sometimes called Shotton Hill and other times just Shotton.

As for Coldstream - I think it would have been in Berwickshire, Scotland in 1796 though the whole area moved from one country to the other in earlier times.  To my knowledge the Borders have never been a separate place.

Christine

[Tickettyboo]

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/BEW/index.html

Genuki is a great resource. That page shows that, before they fiddled with County names (which I STILL don't use <g>) , Coldstream was a parish in the county of Berwickshire, Scotland

Boo

[Tickettyboo]

I'm impressed with the map, Boo, but I'm wondering whether the Shotton near Cramlington is the one Pergamond needs.  There is another one just across the National Park from Wooler, in Carham parish - sometimes called Shotton Hill and other times just Shotton.

Hmm, you may well be right  and it 'was' cheap and cheerful but I just wanted to show that, if all else fails, its reasonably easy to show places in relation to each other. I do it a lot, especially for my ag labs who moved from farm to farm around Northumberland on a regular basis.

[Tickettyboo]

I looked again on Genuki. There is a gazetteer page, where you can put in a place name and it will show it on a map
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Gazetteer/

I entered "Shotton" and specified Northumberland. It brought up 3 places

1 Shotton Hill which, as you said is just across the National Park from Wooler (and zooming in on the map, seems to be in Scotland, but only just!)

2 Shotton Grange
3 Shotton

2 and 3 are very close to each other, near Cramlington

Not sure which one Pergamond needs.

Boo

[c-side]

I wouldn't know where to start to produce that map 

But you're right - it gives a better perspective of how these people moved around.  I would suggest plotting the places on an old map once you have them on a modern one.  I don't think the A697 was there in 1796!  Modern roads can distort our concept of distance.  I remember being very surprised coming out of Kirkharle to see a sign pointing down a little country road saying 'Hexham 13 miles'.  On the roads I normally travel it would have taken at least 30.

Christine