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, an See also:urban See also:district in the Wansbeck See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Northumberland, See also:England, 4 M
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E. of See also:Morpeth, on the Newbiggin See also:branch of the See also:North Eastern railway
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Pop
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(Igor) 13,956
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The district, especially along the See also:river Wansbeck, is not without beauty, but there are numerous collieries, from the existence of which springs the See also:modern growth of Ashington
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At Bothal on the river (from which See also:parish that of Ashington was formed) is the See also:castle originally belonging to the See also:Bertram See also:family, of which See also:Roger Bertram probably built the See also:gatehouse, the only habitable portion remaining, in the reign of See also:Edward III
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The ruins of the castle are fragmentary, but of considerable extent
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The See also:
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