Description
Hepple, a township in Rothbury parish, Northumberland, on the river Coquet, 5 1/2 miles W by S of Bothbury. It includes Hepple Demesne, formerly a separate township. There is a post office at Hepple, under Rothbury; money order office, Harbottle; telegraph office, Rothbury. Acreage, 5919; population, 120. Hepple Woodside is the seat of the lord of the manor and principal landowner, and includes the remains of an ancient castle which belonged to the Bardolfs, the Talboyses, and the Ogles. An ancient chapel stood on Kirk Hill, about a quarter of a mile to the W, was destroyed by the moss-troopers, and was completely removed in 1760. An ancient British camp is at Helchester, near a Roman way, and a number of ums have been found.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
