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[gortonboy]

GLOSTER-HILL, a township, in the parish of Warkworth, union of Alnwick, E. division of Coquetdale ward, N. division of Northumberland, 8½ miles (S. E.) from Alnwick; containing 18 inhabitants. The township is situated on the southern bank of the Coquet, near its confluence with the North Sea; and comprises 260 acres of excellent land, tithe-free, in equal portions of arable and pasture. The surface is undulated, and the view of the sea extensive. The Hall, which stood on an eminence near the Coquet, was burnt down in 1760.

From: 'Glatton - Gloster-Hill', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 298-301. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50982  Date accessed: 01 March 2010.

[JenB]

Just to start I think Berlin would be Birling which is about 1 mile from Warkworth.

You can see Berlin just north of Warkworth on this old map http://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/006951FS.htm

Gloster Hill is south-east of Warkworth on the same map (by the old course of the river)

Jennifer

[Ruskie]

Wonderful map and great find Jennifer. 
(I love the comment about the river)

Am a bit disappointed that Armstrong only mapped the area around Warkworth - wish
he'd done the whole county. 

[JenB]

I've been trying to find Maiden??? There is a Maiden Hall listed in Warkworth Parish in the 1841 census, but I can't find it on any of the maps.

[JenB]

Found it! Just below the centre line of this map - north-west of Widdrington. http://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/006833FS.htm

[JenB]

Am a bit disappointed that Armstrong only mapped the area around Warkworth - wish
he'd done the whole county. 

he did a fair amount of the county - have a look at some of the other towns listed (you need to click on 'plans' for each community to find it.) http://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/Communities.htm

[Ruskie]

Yes! Maiden Hall is found! 

Thanks for the link Jennifer - I will have a good look.  I must have misread the spiel to get the impression he'd only mapped Warkworth. 

[Preshous]

Just a wee snippet, Maidens Hall is/was a huge opencast coal mine.

Gary

[Michael Dixon]

 Ruskie,

 Yesterday Lieutenant Andrew Armstrong " and Son" , rolled in their graves when you said you were disapponited that he only mapped Warkworth area and not the county !

 With great toil he/they mapped the whole county. And as Jennifer points out much of the map appears within the appropriate communities sections within the web site. But Northumbland County Record Office did not use the complete map of 1769, as their list of communities did not include every community in the county.

Seemingly making the map was very expensive, but Duke of Northumberland and other landowners helped with the costs.

It was, is ? available from Northumberland CRO (Woodhorn) for 30 GBPs.

Michael