National Gazetteer (1868) - Widdrington

"WIDDRINGTON, a parish chapelry in the E. division of Morpeth ward, county Northumberland, 8 N.E. of Morpeth, its post town. It is a station on the Newcastle and Berwick railway. This chapelry, which was separated from the parish of Woodhorn and invested with distinct parochial rights in 1768, comprises the village of Waddington and the hamlets of Druridge and Linton, the former situated on the coast of Druridge Bay, and the latter on the river Line. Tho surface is generally level, and the soil a strong clay upon a substratum of sandstone. In the chapelry are brick and tile works and a Landsale colliery. The ancient castle of Widdrington, which gave title of baron to the Widdringtons distinguished in the border wars, and who forfeited it in 1715, was burnt down about 1780, but has been rebuilt, and is now the seat of Lord Vernon, who is lord of the manor. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Durham, value £70. There are a United Session chapel of the Presbyterians and a circulating library and reading-room."

"DUNRIDGE, (or Druridge), a hamlet in the parish of Widdrington, E. division of the ward of Morpeth, in the county of Northumberland, 1 mile S.E. of Widdrington, and 8 N.E. of Morpeth. It is situated on the sea-coast.

"LINTON, a hamlet in the extra parochial place of Widdrington, ward of East Morpeth, county Northumberland, 5 miles N.E. of Morpeth. It issituated near the coast, on the line of the Yorkshire and Berwick railway."