Description
Crawley, a township in Eglingham parish, Northumberland, on the river Brearnish, 8 miles WNW of Ainwick, and About 1 mile from Hedgeley station on the N.E.R. Post town, Ainwick; money order and telegraph office, Glanton. Acreage, 323; population, 28. Crawley Tower is a fine specimen of a border peel tower, stands at the S end of a Roman camp, and commands a fine view of the Vale of Whittingham and the course of the Breamish. Several British and Saxon entrenchments are in the vicinity.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
