Description

Biddlestone, a township in Alwinton parish, Northumberland, in the basin of the Coquet river, under the Silverton and Harden Hills, 7 miles NW of Rothbury station on the North British railway. Acreage, 4860; population, 156. The manor belonged anciently to the Vissards, but was given by Edward I. to Sir W. de Selby, and still belongs to his descendants. James I., when on his way to London in 1603, was entertained here, and knighted five of the Selbys. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.