FEATHERSTON, a township in the parish of HALTWHISTLE,
western division of TINDALE ward, county of
NORTHUMBERLAND, 3 miles (S. W.) from Haltwhistle,
containing 239 inhabitants. Featherston castle, which
has been recently repaired and enlarged by its present
noble owner, was from an early period the seat of the
Featherstonehaugh family, one of whom, Timothy, raised
a troop of horse for the king during the civil war, and
was knighted under the royal banner; but having been
taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester, in 1651, he
was beheaded, and his estate sold by parliament to the
Earl of Carlisle.