BAMBROUGH, a parish in the northern division
of BAMBROUGH ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND,
comprising the chapelries of Beadnell and Lucker, and
the townships of Adderstone, Bambrough, Bambrouga-
Castle', Bradford, Budle, Burton, Elford, Fleetham, Glororum,
Hoppen, Mouson, Newham, Newstead, Outchester,
Ratchwood, Shoston, Spindlestone, North Sunderland,
Swinhoe, Tuggal, Warrenton, and Warnford, aud
containing 3342 inhabitants, of which number, 342 are
in the township of Bambrough, 4 miles (E. by N.)
from Belford. Bambrough, originally called Bebbanburg,
was, prior to the Conquest, a royal Saxon burgh, and
the residence of several of the kings of Northumbria.
It sent two members to parliament in the 23rd of Edward
I., and, in the reign of Edward III., furnished .one
ship for the expedition against Calais: it had also "a
market, which has long been discontinued. The surrounding
district, formerly called Bambroughshire, was
a separate franchise, in the possession of various privileges,
now become obsolete. The village occupies an
airy and pleasant situation near the sea and Budle bay.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Northumberland, and diocese of Durham, endowed with
£200 private benefaction, and £500 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Trustees of Lord
Crewe. The church, dedicated to St. Aidan, was, with
another long since desecrated, given by Henry I. to
the priory of Nosthall in Yorkshire, whereupon a small
convent of Augustine canons was founded here, in 1137,
as a cell to that priory, the revenue of which, at the
dissolution, was £124.15.7. There were also a college,
an hospital dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, and a
house of Preaching friars.