Coquet and Coast Forum
Don't forget to check out our sister site: Amble and District

Go Back   Coquet and Coast Forum > Local History, Genealogy, People and Places > The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift.

 We no longer use activation emails. Please allow 24h after sign up and your account should work
Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 12-10-2012, 04:07 PM
janwhin janwhin is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Nr Eglingham
Posts: 1,377
Default Chevington Drift

The Morpeth Herald used to run a page called "Our Own Column" where towns and villages ran their own items. On 21 January 1905 the following appeared:
"Part of the development movement of Broomhill Collieries Ltd has been to add a new colliery to Northumberland. This new community is considerably removed from Broomhill, and for a time was called Greyton, after the noble lord who owns the land royalties and other sources of wealth in the district, but is now known as Chevington Drift. Situate on a rather barren landscape, the wags have humorously styled it Siberia, but the energy and progress of the inhabitants belie the Muscovite title......"
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 17-10-2012, 08:47 PM
Coquet's Avatar
Coquet Coquet is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Amble
Posts: 3,253
Default

'The Three Villages', Stewart, mentions this early name and states that Grey himself objected to it saying it was inappropriate, so it was dropped.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 05:19 AM.


Powered by: vBulletin
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.