Hepburn, Northumberland

Human settlement in England

List of places: UK; England; Northumberland

55°30′51″N 1°53′55″W / 55.51417°N 1.89861°W / 55.51417; -1.89861

Hepburn is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Chillingham in the county of Northumberland, England. In 1951 the parish had a population of 43.^[1]

Etymology

The standard authorities give Hepburn as in origin an Old English name deriving from heah 'high' + byrgen 'burial mound'.^[2]

Governance

Hepburn was formerly a township in the parish of Chillingham,^[3] in 1866 Hepburn became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 1955 the parish was abolished and merged with Chillingham.^[4] From 1974 to 2009 it was in Berwick-upon-Tweed district.

References

^ "Population statistics Hepburn CP/Tn through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
^ Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).
^ "History of Hepburn, in Berwick upon Tweed and Northumberland". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
^ "Relationships and changes Hepburn CP/Tn through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 10 February 2024.