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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 622 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEDLINGTON , an See also:

urban See also:district of See also:Northumberland, See also:England, within the See also:parliamentary See also:borough of See also:Morpeth, 5 M. S.E. of that See also:town on a See also:branch of the See also:North Eastern railway. Pop. (19o1) 18,766. It lies on high ground above the See also:river See also:Blyth, 22 m. above its mouth. The See also:church of St See also:Cuthbert shows See also:good transitional See also:Norman details. Its See also:dedication recalls the transportation of the See also:body of the saintly See also:bishop of Lindisfarne from its See also:shrine at See also:Durham by the monks of that See also:foundation to Lindisfarne, when in fear of attack from See also:William the Conqueror. They rested here with the See also:coffin. The See also:modern growth of the town is attributable to the valuable collieries of the See also:neighbour-See also:hood, and to manufactures of nails and chains. It is one of the most populous See also:mining centres in the See also:county. On the See also:south See also:bank of the river is the township and urban district of See also:Cowper (pop. 17,879), with collieries and See also:glass See also:works; See also:coal is shipped from this point by river.

Bedlington (Betlingtun) and the hamlets belonging to it were bought by Cutheard, bishop of Durham, between 900 and 915, and although locally situated in the county of Northumberland became See also:

part of the county See also:palatine of Durham over which Bishop Walcher was granted royal rights by William the Conqueror. When these rights were taken from Cuthbert See also:Tunstall, bishop of Durham, in 1536, Bedlington among his other See also:property lost its See also:special privileges, but was confirmed to, him in 1541 with the other property of his predecessors. Together with the other lands of the see of Durham, Bedlington was made over to the ecclesiastical commissioners in 1866. Bedlingtonshire was made part of Northumberland for See also:civil purposes by acts of See also:parliament in 1832 and 1844.

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