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Originally Posted by janwhin
I had a look at the old newspapers to see if there was anything about the Factory but it's elusive. There are a couple in the 1870s, advertising for tailors.
One interesting article in the late 1880s describes a train journey and mentions that Chevington and Acklington used to be populous places before the textile traders moved away to the cities. There was certainly a textile enterprise at Acklington and a Factory so maybe Chevington was the same.
The parish registers (Warkworth) might give a clue. I seem to remember plenty of entries for Acklington and the Factory.
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I wonder if it could have been the 'Tile Works' these seem to pop up all over the place back then. There is one on this 1868 map to the west of the railway crossing at Chevington
http://visionofbritain.org.uk/iipmoo...ition/lm_109sw