Bedlington

Bedlington is a town in Northumberland, England, with a populace of around 15,400, estimated at 18,470 at the 2011 Census. It is a previous mining town approximately 10 miles 16 km north of the closest city, Newcastle upon Tyne and 4.5 miles 7 km southeast of the area town of Morpeth. Other close-by spots incorporate Ashington toward the north upper east, Blyth toward the east and Cramlington toward the south. The area of Bedlington comprised the noteworthy exclave of County Durham called Bedlingtonshire. It is popular for giving its name to a type of canine; the Bedlington Terrier. The place-name "Bedlington" is first bore witness to around 1050 of every a life story of Saint Cuthbert, where it shows up as "Bedlingtun".

The name signifies "the town of Bedla's people". Bedlington and the villas having a place with it were purchased by Cutheard, Bishop of Durham, somewhere in the range of 900 and 915, and albeit privately arranged in the province of Northumberland, it turned out to be a piece of the area palatine from Lat. palatium, a royal residence of Durham, over which Bishop Walcher was conceded regal rights by William the Conqueror. At the point when these rights were taken from Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, in 1536, Bedlington among his different properties, lost its extraordinary benefits, however was affirmed to him in 1541 with the other property of his forerunners.