BROOMRIDGE, a hamlet in the parish of FORD,
western division of GLENDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND,
5 miles (N. by W.) from Wooler. The
population is returned with the parish.  Camden considers
this-to have been the place called Brunanburh,
where King Athelstan-, in 928, defeated Constantine,
King of Scotland, Anlaf the Dane,-and Eugenius, a
petty prince of Cumberland. About half a mile to the
south of Broomridge is Haltwell Sweire, the scene of
an encounter, in 1558, between the English under Sir
Henry 'Percy, and the Scotch under Earl Bothwell, in
which the former sustained a defeat.