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Berwick-upon-Tweed Poor Law Union
THE BERWICK-UPON-TWEED POOR LAW UNION comprehends 19 parishes and townships embracing an area of 57,975 acres, and a population, in 1851, of 24,093 souls. The townships and parishes are Aucroft, Berwick, Cornhill, Duddo, Felkington, Grindon, Holy Island, Horncliffe, Kyloe, Loan End, Longridge, Norham, Norham Mains, Ord, Shoreswood, Spittal, Thornton, Tweedmouth, and Twizell.
The BERWICK-UPON-TWEED UNION WORKHOUSE occupies a healthy situation in Castlegate, and was formerly used as a sacking manufactory, but it has been altered and enlarged by the Poor Law Commissioners, at an expense of £1,000. There is a School attached to the Workhouse for the education of the pauper children. James B. Atkinson, governor; John Moor, assistant governor ; Jane Purdie, matron ; Alexander Kirkwood, surgeon; William and Isabella Nesbit, teachers.
Extract from: History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland...Whellan, William, & Co, 1855.
