Great Whittington

Great Whittington
Great Whittington
	The Queen's Head, Great Whittington
Population	401
OS grid reference	NZ004708
Unitary authority	Northumberland;
Ceremonial county	Northumberland;
Region	North East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Postcode district	NE19
Dialling code	01434
Police	Northumbria
Fire	Northumberland
Ambulance	North East
UK Parliament	Hexham;
	List of places UK England Northumberland

Great Whittington is a village in Northumberland, England, 7 miles NE of Hexham with a population of 401, as of the 2011 British Census^[1] and an area of 1494 acres, most of which is used as farmland, with only 12 acres urbanized.

Governance

Great Whittington is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham.

History

Immediately north of Great Whittington, in a field west of the Unnamed Road leading to Matfen, lies Great Whittington Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post.^[2] This was 1 of approx. 1,563 underground monitoring posts built all over the UK during the Cold War to monitor the effects of a Nuclear Strike. They were operated by the ROC who were mostly civilian volunteers. Great Whittington ROC post was opened in June 1962 and closed in September 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, which saw the end of the Cold War.

Landmarks

The Devil's Causeway passes the village about 1 mile (2 km) to the west. The causeway was a Roman road which started at Port Gate on Hadrian's Wall, north of Corbridge, and extended 55 miles (89 km) northwards across Northumberland to the mouth of the River Tweed at Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Transport

A bus service, used predominately for transporting pupils of Corbridge Middle School to and from school is used, but the area around Great Whittington is mostly farmland, with little use for any other method of transport.

Religious sites

A now deconsecrated Wesleyan church can be found on the northern side of the village green, distinguishable by a large cross above the door.

References

^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 29 June 2015.
^ http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/db/988176917.html

The Official Great Whittington Website greatwhittington.com
Geanology archives ukga.org/england/Northumberland/towns/GreatandLittleWhittington.html

External links

Media related to Great Whittington at Wikimedia Commons
Whittington, as seen from the south

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[1] "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 29 June 2015.

[2] ttp://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/db/988176917.html

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