Chillingham

Chillingham
Northumberland
Chillingham Cattle grazing
Location
Grid reference:	NU060259
Location:	55°31’37"N, 1°54’14"W
Data
Population:	50  (2001)
Post town:	Alnwick
Postcode:	NE66
Dialling code:	01668
Local Government
Council:	Northumberland
Parliamentary constituency:	Berwick-upon-Tweed

Chillingham is a village in the midst of Northumberland and to be found about four miles east of Wooler, south of Chatton.

Chillingham is famous for its castle, Chillingham Castle, and the Chillingham Cattle, a wild herd of roughly 90 wild oxen which have roamed free on the Chillingham Estate since the Middle Ages or perhaps since time immemorial, and strictly inbreeding for at least 300 years. The village contains Hebborn bastle house, a fortified house near Hepburn Wood.

Miscellany

• The Irish composer Charles Villiers Stanford wrote a song titled "Chillingham", serenading the beauty and peace of the landscape here.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Chillingham)

• Information on Chillingham  from GENUKI
• Northumberland Communities: Chillingham