Beanley

Beanley
Beanley
	Beanley Hall
	Beanley Location within Northumberland
OS grid reference	NU085185
Civil parish	Hedgeley;
Unitary authority	Northumberland;
Shire county	Northumberland;
Region	North East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ALNWICK
Postcode district	NE66
Police	Northumbria
Fire	Northumberland
Ambulance	North East
UK Parliament	Berwick-upon-Tweed;
	List of places UK England Northumberland 55°27′36″N 1°52′01″W / 55.460°N 1.867°W

Beanley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hedgeley in the county of Northumberland, England. It is situated to the north-west of Alnwick, near Eglingham. In 1951 the parish had a population of 53.^[1]

In 1870–1872, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Beanley as "a township in Eglingham parish, Northumberland; on the river Breamish, 7 miles NW of Alnwick. Acres, 2,341. Pop., 116. Houses, 23. The earls of Dunbar anciently held it on the tenure of maintaining a road into Scotland. A cross stands on Hedgeley-moor, at a short distance from the village, erected to the memory of Sir Ralph Percy, who fell in 1464 in a battle with the Yorkists."

Governance

Beanley is in the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Beanley was formerly a township in Eglingham parish,^[2] from 1866 Beanley was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1955 and merged with Hedgeley.^[3]