Belford

• "A Poor Little House." by Janetta Bowen. ISBN 1904623328, Writers Printshop 2005. The story of Belford Union Workhouse and its people from 1836 to 1930.

• Northumberland Record Office hold copies of 1841 - 1891 census and provide a useful User Guide
• The 1851 Census Index (microfiche CN28) Belford and Bamburgh (PRO piece HO107/2420 folios 1-250) (Type B) (Book)
• Census 1891 Northumberland – Belford (Belford, Middleton, Detchant, Outchester, Mousen, Warenton, Easington, Lucker, Ratchwood, Warrenford, Adderstone, Newham, Chathill, Ellingham, Preston, Newstead, Beadnell, Swinhoe, Tughall, North Sunderland, Elford, Fleatham, Bradford, Glororum Burton, Shoreston, Bamburgh, Budle, Spindleston, Farne Islands) (PRO piece RG12/4266) (Type B) (Book) (Volume 76) BOTH published by the https://www.ndfhs.org.uk/ may be of value to researchers interested in this parish.

• The Ancestral Indexes website provides information about Belford, St Mary.

• Belford - Church Records - links and information.

• This area is within Northumberland North First Registration District.
• Certificates of birth, death and marriage can be ordered Locally from Northumberland County Council.
   

• The Belford section of North Northumberland Online
• The Northumberland Communities website includes pages relating to Belford. They provide "a range of learning resource material that reflects Northumberland's heritage, providing a base for studying the County's history. The website provides a starting point for understanding the development of communities in Northumberland. It also seeks to illustrate the range of sources for family and local history research that are available via Northumberland Archives Service."

• Geograph
• Flickr

• The section of The National Gazetteer (1868) relating to this parish - transcribed by Colin Hinson.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Belford to another place.

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  The history of Belford Parish is included in:- Northumberland County History Committee, History of Northumberland, Volume 1. Newcastle, A. Reid, 1893.
• LNER Wartime Evacuation Documents N.EVAC 2 and N.EVAC 3 describing the arrangements for evacuating children from Newcastle and Gateshead to rural parts of Northumberland (including Belford), Co Durham, Yorkshire, Cumberland and Westmorland. The second document includes lists of schools with details of their places and times of departure and their destinations.

• Belford - Maps - links and information.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference NU102359 (Lat/Lon: 55.61679, -1.838986), Belford which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• Belford Parish was part of Belford Poor Law Union. The Union Workhouse was located in West Street, Belford. Some records are held at Berwick on Tweed Record Office but these are of limited genealogical value.
• "A Poor Little House." by Janetta Bowen. ISBN 1904623328, Writers Printshop 2005. The story of Belford Union Workhouse and its people from 1836 to 1930.