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