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Stannington
Stannington is a village in Northumberland, located about 8 miles north of Newcastle and 4½ miles south of Morpeth. Catraw Burn flows past Stannington and joins the River Blyth to the south of the village. In the village are Stannington First School, the Village Hall and the Ridley Arms - the latter being a former coaching inn, on what was the Great North Road. The Church of St Mary the Virgin stands on a site where there has been a church since at least the 12th century. The nearby vicarage dates from 1745. The village and surrounding area, including many farms and hamlets, form Stannington Civil Parish.
Stannington is a small village in central Northumberland which is associated with Morpeth and its county council. The population of the civil parish was 1,219 at the 2001 Census, increasing to 1,280 at the 2011 Census. Stannington is divided into three: Stannington North-East Quarter, Stannington North-West Quarter and Stannington South Quarter. The total area of Stannington, including Stannington Vale, is 10,093 acres (40.84 km2).
Buildings
St Mary's church
Stannington's oldest building is the church, St. Mary The Virgin. The original church on that site dates back to 1190AD.
Most of the current church was constructed in 1871, to a design by R J Johnson of Newcastle, at a cost of £6,000. It incorporates the 13th century north arcade of the medieval church, and some medieval stained glass and grave covers.
The old vicarage, built in 1745, stands near the church, with the current vicarage behind.
Hospitals
There were two hospitals in the village. Stannington Children's Hospital was the first children's tuberculosis hospital in the country; St. Mary's Hospital was an asylum originally known as the Gateshead Lunatic Asylum. Both are now closed. One former hospital north-east of the village near Netherton was built in the 1930s and featured the Thomas Taylor retirement homes for Wansbeck residents. Behind the main complex was the Mona Taylor Maternity Hospital which was named after the leading suffragist, Mr Taylor's wife. Many children were born here until it too became an old people's home and, together with the rest of the site, was then owned by Northumberland County Council. Today this development is known as Hepscott Park with some original hospital buildings surviving in local authority use, other buildings converted into private homes and some additional new houses.
Other buildings
Stannington First School is located near the church. The village also has a post office.
Other listed buildings in the village include two bus shelters, built in 1937 to a design by Laurence Whistler and presented to the village by Lord Ridley in commemoration of the coronation of King George VI.
Transport
The A1 road arcs past the village and in instances of traffic accidents or otherwise-motivated road closures, traffic from the A1 has been diverted though the village. This section of the A1 was substantially rebuilt with two new roundabouts and new junctions in 2003 and 2004 following a fatal accident in 1999.
In 1847 a railway station was opened near the village. Initially known as Netherton, it was renamed to Stannington in 1892, but passenger services ended in 1958 and the station finally closed to goods trains too in 1964.
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Stannington Sanatorium Reel 2 (1920-1930)
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North Lodge - Balgdon Estate
- The North Lodge was built in 1887 as a gate lodge for the north entrance to Blagdon Hall. It is located on the old Great North Road near Stannington and is part of the …
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Stannington, Northumberland, The Church of St Mary The Virgin
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Stannington Station
- Overview Map Street View Stannington Station is a substantial hamlet in Northumberland clustered around what was previously a railway station, located about a mile north-east of the village of Stannington …
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Historic Buildings and Monuments in Stannington Civil Parish
- Listed buildings and scheduled monuments in Stannington Civil Parish, Northumberland, from the National Heritage List for England[1]. In the absence of a published 'local list', some other public buildings of …
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Stannington Parish, 1855
- Extract from: History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland...Whellan, William, & Co, 1855. STANNINGTON PARISH. Stannington parish is divided into three divisions, called respectively Stannington North-East Quarter, Stannington North-West Quarter, …
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Stannington Sanatorium Reel 2 (1920-1930)
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North Lodge - Balgdon Estate
- The North Lodge was built in 1887 as a gate lodge for the north entrance to Blagdon Hall. It is located on the old Great North Road near Stannington and is part of the …
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Stannington, Northumberland, The Church of St Mary The Virgin
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Stannington Station
- Overview Map Street View Stannington Station is a substantial hamlet in Northumberland clustered around what was previously a railway station, located about a mile north-east of the village of Stannington …
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Historic Buildings and Monuments in Stannington Civil Parish
- Listed buildings and scheduled monuments in Stannington Civil Parish, Northumberland, from the National Heritage List for England[1]. In the absence of a published 'local list', some other public buildings of …
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Stannington Parish, 1855
- Extract from: History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland...Whellan, William, & Co, 1855. STANNINGTON PARISH. Stannington parish is divided into three divisions, called respectively Stannington North-East Quarter, Stannington North-West Quarter, …
Northumberland
Bus Shelter (North), Stannington
Bus Shelter (South), Stannington
Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Stannington
Map and Aerial View of Stannington
Old Drinking Fountain, Stannington
Old Hearse House, Stannington
Old Milestone, Stannington
Stannington at War
Stannington First School
Stannington Parish, 1855
Stannington Sanatorium (1907-1984)
The Old Vicarage, Stannington
The Ridley Arms, Stannington
Village Hall, Stannington
