Widdrington Station and Stobswood

Widdrington
Parish Church, to The Holy Trinity Grade I listed The Twelve Apostles are a row of Limes Trees which mark the approach to the low green mound which was once the site of Widdrington Castle.
Widdrington Inn
Widdrington
Widdrington shown within Northumberland
Population	2,767 (2011 census)
OS grid reference	NZ245941
Shire county	Northumberland
Region	North East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MORPETH
Postcode district	NE61
Dialling code	01670
Police	Northumbria
Fire	Northumberland
Ambulance	North East
EU Parliament	North East England
UK Parliament	Berwick upon Tweed
List of places UK England Northumberland 55°14′27″N 1°36′50″W / 55.2408°N 1.6138°W / 55.2408; -1.6138Coordinates: 55°14′27″N 1°36′50″W / 55.2408°N 1.6138°W / 55.2408; -1.6138

Parish Church, to The Holy Trinity
Grade I listed

Widdrington Station and Stobswood is a village and civil parish in the county of Northumberland, England. It has 2,767 residents (as at 2011) and is 5.8 miles (9.3 km) NNE of Morpeth.

As the name suggests, Widdrington Station has a railway station. This is on the East Coast Main Line.

Widdrington Station has its original village settlement, Widdrington Village, 1 mile (1.6 km) to the northeast beside the A1065, with one close-knit residential side-street hilly lane, a pub, farm shop, and the parish church that is Grade I listed and dates to the Norman era commanded by elevated ruins of a modest 18th-century castle, Widdrington Castle, a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

This place was long the seat and chiefly the estate of the Widdrington family, many of whom at various periods greatly distinguished themselves against the Scots, and on other occasions. Sir William Widdrington, in 1642 was expelled from the House of Commons for raising forces in defence of Charles I, who elevated him to Baron Widdrington; after the Battle of Marston Moor, he left the kingdom, when his estates were confiscated by parliament, but returning in the service of Charles II, he was slain at a reinvigorated Royalist battle in Wigan. William, the 4th Lord, was attainted in 1715 for his part in the rebellion of that year, and his property, some £100,000, was sold to all willing bidders; thus consummating the downfall of a family that had flourished during a space of seven centuries. The ancient castle, which stood in a noble park of 600 acres, was razed to the ground about 60 years after this, and a newer edifice, in 1848, much out of repair and uninhabited, was demolished in 1862.