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Chathill
Chathill is a hamlet in the civil parish of Ellingham, in Northumberland, England. It is about 9 miles (14 km) north of Alnwick and 3 miles (5 km) inland from the North Sea coast. It is served by Chathill railway station. It is on the main road serving Seahouses and the northern coast. Chathill is home to Preston Pele Tower, built between 1392 and 1399. One of its former owners was Sir Guiscard Harbottle of Beamish, who was killed at the Battle of Flodden. The tower has a clock, installed in 1864, which features mechanisms similar to Big Ben.
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Chathill railway station
Chathill is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley. The station, situated 46 miles 1 chain (46.0 mi; 74.0 km) north of Newcastle, serves the hamlet of Chathill, and surrounding coastal villages of Beadnell and Seahouses in Northumberland, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
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Preston Tower, Northumberland
Preston Tower is a fourteenth-century pele tower in Preston, Northumberland, England built in 1392.
The tower is now a private museum.
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Ellingham, Northumberland
Ellingham is a civil parish in Northumberland, England. The population taken at the 2001 Census was 282, increasing slightly to 288 at the 2011 Census.
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West Fleetham
West Fleetham is a small hamlet in the civil parish of Beadnell, in Northumberland, England situated about 4 miles (6.4 km) from Seahouses and 2 miles (3.2 km) from Chathill railway station.
It originally had two working water mills fed by the Long Nanny stream these were fed by means of a sluices and a sluice gate the remnants of which can still be seen in the woods surrounding the stream.
The sluice gate was unusual as it had fitted a water wheel that drove a generator which in turn fed power to the nearby house it also had a shed full of batteries to act as a store, the installation was made by the local garage owner (Mr Ord) whose wife still lived there until the 1970s.
There is a quarry pond in the village that no one seems to know much about and was used at one time as a dump for rubbish and old cars and now is a popular wildlife habitat.
To the North of the village is the disused North Sunderland Railway, which ran from Chathill to Seahouses but closed in 1951. The route is marked by its cutting and bridge.
In the fields surrounding the village are signs or ancient agriculture from the standing stone to the ridged contours of the fields showing strip agriculture and the dark patches of old coal mining.