Description
Beanley, a township in Eglingham parish, Northumberland, on the river Breamish, 7 miles NW of Alnwick, which is the post town. Acreage, 2323; population, 103. the nearest station is Hedgeley on the N.E.R. The Earls of Dunbar anciently held it on the tenure of maintaining a road into Scotland. The remains of a British camp are still to be seen here, and a cross stands on Hedgeley Moor, at a short distance from the village, erected to the memory of Sir Ralph Percy, who fell in 1464 in a battle with the Yorkists. The Duke of Northumberland is lord of the manor and sole landowner.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
