Bellingham, Northumberland - St. Cuthbert's Church - RP local postcard c.1940s

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    • Picture / Image:  St. Cuthbert's, Bellingham, Northumberland - real photo
    • Publisher:  E. Dobbin, Bellingham
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Bellingham (pron.: /'b?l?nd??m/)[1] is a village in Northumberland, to the north-west of Newcastle upon Tyne and is situated on the Hareshaw burn at its confluence with the River North Tyne. Hareshaw Linn[2] is a waterfall on the Hareshaw Burn near Bellingham. It is pronounced Bell-ing-jum

Famous as a stopping point on the Pennine Way trail it is popular with walkers and cyclists. The village's local newspaper is the Hexham Courant. There is also an 18 hole golf course which was established in 1893.[3]

The Heritage Centre is the local museum.[4] Its exhibitions include the Border Counties Railway, the Border Reivers, mining, farming, the photography of W P Collier, and the Stannersburn Smithy. It has a database of local family names and one of old photographs. It also holds special exhibitions of historical or artistic interest, and readings and performances by poets, storytellers, musicians and dancers.

The Grade-I listed St Cuthbert's Church (13th-century, substantially reconstructed in the early 17th century) is described as 'almost unique in England'[5] owing to its stone barrel vault, which runs the length of the Nave and extends into the South Transept. Within the churchyard is ""The Long Pack"", purportedly the grave of a burglar who attempted to infiltrate a local house by hiding in a beggar's pack, but was discovered after he suffered an ill-timed coughing fit, and was promptly run through with the sword of the house's proprietor.

The village football team competes in the Tyneside Amateur League First Division.[6]

Two miles north-east at Hole Farm is the sixteenth century Hole Bastle, a well-preserved example of a bastle house.