Description
Bellister, a township in Haltwhistle parish, Northumberland, which includes the small village of Park and the hamlet of Wydon, on the South Tyne, near the Newcastle and Carlisle and the Alston railways, 2 miles S of Haltwhistle, which is the post town. Acreage, 1071; population, 137. Bellister Castle, a border tower, now a ruin, was the seat of the Blenkinsops, and is now used as a farmhouse. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
