Blanchland (i)
Posted in Architecture, Trips at 12:00 on 14 March 2026
Blanchland is a village in Northumberland (just.) We visited it because it was featured in a book of picturesque British villages which we have. (Titled the AA Book of British Villages.) Its buildings are lovely, all built of stone.
The village’s focal point is a kind of square whose entrance is on the left below:-
The Square. Note The Lord Crewe Arms on the left:-
The Lord Crewe Arms:-
The Square:-
The Square’s entrance porch building houses the village shop:-
One of the buildings has a stream running under it:-
An old church:-
Tags: Architecture, Blanchland, Northumberland
jackdeighton
16 March 2026 at 12:00
Blanchland is the site of an old Abbey which nowadays acts as the local church.
Blanchland Abbey:-
Rear of Abbey:-
Blanchland’s War Memorial sits beside the Abbey’s entrance pathway:-
It commemorates the village’s Great War dead. Dedication and names with inscription, “All they had they gave.”:-