In a message dated 04/10/2009 14:59:03 GMT Daylight Time, kenmar.white@btopenworld.com writes: I think I said this before but Horton parish church is the parish church for Bedlington Marg: Yes, you have said this before - and when you did I responded by saying you were wrong! Horton is one parish; Bedlington is another. They each have/had their own Parish Church and neither parish "comes under" or includes the other. It is said that when the monks first fled the viking raids on Holy Island, taking with them the coffin of St Cuthbert, they paused at Bedlington on their journey south. For that reason the parish of Bedlington became part of the possessions of the monks, which eventually went into the county of Durham,, where Bedlington remained until the mid-1840s. At that time, Horton probably did not even exist. Geoff Nicholson