Description
Choppington, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Bedlington parish, Northumberland. The village lies on the river Wansbeck, and on the Morpeth and Tynemouth section of the N.E.R., 3 1/2 miles ESE of Morpeth, and has a station on the railway and a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) The parish was constituted in 1863. Population, 4117. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle; value, £300, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Newcastle. the church was built in 1864 at a cost of £1950. There are Conservative and Liberal Clubs and Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
