Juniper

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Juniper
Northumberland
Peth Head Cottage, Juniper village - geograph.org.uk - 876727.jpg
Peth Head Cottage, Juniper
Location
Grid reference: NY935585
Location: 54°55’16"N, 2°6’11"W
Data
Post town: Hexham
Postcode: NE47
Local Government
Council: Northumberland
Parliamentary
constituency:
Hexham

Juniper, formerly also known as 'Ginifer' is a hamlet in Northumberland, about five miles due south of Hexham, in the area known as Hexhamshire.

The History of Northumberland in 1897 reports:

The hamlet of Juniper, or Ginifer, is subdivided into the Low, the Middle, and the High Juniper. At Low Juniper is a grass field and a red brick-fronted house (an unusual sight in this district of stone buildings) belonging to the vicarage of Slaley. With this hamlet was connected the Tyneside family of Angus.[1]

Name

The name of the hamlet appears to come from the manor house here, known as Juniper-house, recorded in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries as belonging to the Angus family,[1] and its farm.

As an April Fools' Day joke, in April 2010 the Hexham Courant reported a change of the village's name.[2] The story related that the 'hippy hero, Donovan' a music start of the 1960s was donating £5 million to Northumberland County Council in return for chaging the name of Juniper to "Jennifer Juniper", one of his songs and his personal favourite.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 A History of Northumberland, Vol 4, pp 42, 58 - on Electric Scotland
  2. "Hippy pop star planes to buy hamlet". Hexham Courant (2 April 2010): p. 3. 
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