Warkworth, Carlisle

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Warkworth is a village in Carlisle

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Warkworth within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Warkworth in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Warkworth.-- seaport and market town, par., and township, Northumberland, near mouth of river Coquet, 7 miles SE. of Alnwick and 316 from London by rail-par, (including Amble), 17,455 ac., pop. 6917; township, 1129 ac., pop. 662; P.O. Market-day, Thursday. Warkworth has an old church; a castle of the Percys, now the property of the Duke of Northumberland; and the ancient hermitage of Bishop Percy's ballad. The trade of the place is chiefly carried on from Amble (1 mile SE.), where there is a considerable harbour, with pier, quays, tramways, &c.; it is principally in connection with the great coal seam at Kadcliffe. Herring fishing, salt mfr., and brick-making are also carried on.

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