Hi Geoff, I do not know the area at all but was going by what I found on the Genuki pages for the places I mentioned I had found as birth places in the 1851 & 1861 census for the Elliott family. I have just gone back to the Genuki page for Harbottle and see where I made a mistake in what I had written to the list. The page shows Harbottle comes into Alwinton Parish and not Alnwick as I wrote. When I searched for the place name Harbottle on the "Where is it in Northumberland" page of Genuki I found the following. "Harbottle - Holystone Parochial Chapelry - See: Alwinton [Parish] (RegD/SubD) Rothbury/Elsdon - See: Northumberland North 2nd" I am sorry for the error in my message with regard to Harbottle and hope I have not confused Alan too much and that he will accept my apology. While on the page for Alwinton I used the Nearby Places link at the top of the page and then put in Harbottle, up came the ref. for Harbottle of NT932046 and I made a search for places within a 25 mile radius of this ref. for Harbottle. I saw that there is a South Broomhill, East Chivington at 21 miles distant to the East of Harbottle. Broomhill at 20 Miles distant to the East of Harbottle, 13 Miles to the South of Harbottle is Broomhill and also at 21 miles Distant to the East South East of Harbottle is Broomhill Farm. The Genuki page for Where is it in Northumberland showed Broomhill and beside the place name it just says "See Warkworth (Parish)" Once again I apologise for the error in my stating Alnwick instead of Alwinton. Regards Jenny DeAngelis >> I was rather surprised you put the distance between Harbottle and >> Broomhill at only 19 miles. I would have estimated it as about half as >> far again. However, whatever the actual distance, and whether that is >> "as the crow flies" or "by road", the more important thing is that >> Harbottle is well into Coquetdale and a local centre for the sort of >> faming carried on there - some arable north and east of the village but >> mainly rough grazing for (now) sheep and (perhaps then) cattle on the >> slopes of the Cheviot Hills. Broomhill, however, was at the time in >> question a pleasantly rural place, close to the coast and quite >> productive agriculturally, situated as it is on the Northumberland >> coastal plain. Later it became a coal mining district and after that the >> whole landscape around there was altered by large-scale opencast >> workings. While one might, at a stretch, consider Broomhill as being in "Warkworth district", I cannot imagine any local person thinking of Harbottle as within "Alnwick district", whatever that may mean. What sort of District? Not the parish - perhaps the Ward of the County (a purely administrative thing and not used these days). Just possibly it might have been within Alnwick Rural District, but that was abolished in 1974. If you mean the modern "districts" into which the country is now divided for local government purposes, they are not really relevant for anything historical. Harbottle and Alnwick are well apart and I would expect Harbottle people to look towards Rothbury, further down the Coquet, as their local town, rather than Alnwick, beyond Rothbury, up over Rimside Moor to cross the A697 Wooler road, then across that and across Alnwick Moor before reaching Alnwick. Certainly Warkworth would not enter into it.>>