Official Name: | Beanley |
Country: | England |
Region: | North East England |
Shire County: | Northumberland |
Unitary England: | Northumberland |
Civil Parish: | Hedgeley |
Constituency Westminster: | Berwick-upon-Tweed |
Post Town: | ALNWICK |
Postcode Area: | NE |
Postcode District: | NE66 |
Os Grid Reference: | NU085185 |
Coordinates: | 55.46°N -1.867°W |
Static Image Name: | Beanley Hall - geograph.org.uk - 1435332.jpg |
Static Image Width: | 240px |
Static Image Caption: | Beanley Hall |
Beanley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hedgeley in the county of Northumberland, England. It is situated to the north-west of Alnwick, near Eglingham. In 1951 the parish had a population of 53.[1]
In 1870–1872, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Beanley as "a township in Eglingham parish, Northumberland; on the river Breamish, 7 miles NW of Alnwick. Acres, 2,341. Pop., 116. Houses, 23. The earls of Dunbar anciently held it on the tenure of maintaining a road into Scotland. A cross stands on Hedgeley-moor, at a short distance from the village, erected to the memory of Sir Ralph Percy, who fell in 1464 in a battle with the Yorkists."
Beanley is in the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Beanley was formerly a township in Eglingham parish,[2] from 1866 Beanley was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1955 and merged with Hedgeley.[3]