Description
Bolton, a township in Edlingham parish, Northumberland, on the river Aln, about 5 1/2 miles from Alnwick. The railway station is at Glanton, 1 1/2 mile distant. Post town, Alnwick; money order and telegraph office, Glanton. Acreage, 2060 ; population, 119. The Earl of Surrey mustered his forces here before the battle of Flodden. An hospital for lepers was founded here about 1225, by Robert de Roos, and became the property of the Collingwoods. Some remains of antiquity have been found. The church is a chapel of ease, under Edlingham.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
