Description
Branxton, a township a village, and a parish in Northumberland, near the river Till, 2 1/2 miles ESE of Coldstream railway station, and 9 NW by N of Wooler. There is a post office under Cornhill (R.S.O.) Acreage of township, 1508 ; population, 222. Here is the field of the battle of Flodden, fatal to James IV. of Scotland, fought in 1513. [See FLODDEN.] The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle-on-Tyne ; net value, £320 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The church is good but small. Stockdale the poet was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
