- History
- Save the Date - Tercentenary 2021
- Sharp Family Portraits
- Lord Crewe's Estates
- Dr Sharp's Bamburgh Charities
- The Lukin Lifeboat
- Cathedral Lecture 4th March 1976
- Portrait Gallery
- Dr Sharp's History of Bamburgh Castle
- Bamburgh Library
- Northumberland Archives
- Blanchland Timeline
- W H Auden in Blanchland
- John Wesley at Blanchland
- On this month...
Blanchland Timeline
1165 Walter de Bolbec gifts land for a monastery
1327 Edward III stays at Blanchland
1536-9 Dissolution of the Monasteries
1620s Ownership by the Forsters of Bamburgh
1699 Marriage of Nathaniel Lord Crewe and Dorothy Forster
1704 Sale of Forster estate to Nathaniel Lord Crewe
1715 Jacobite Rising
1721 Death of Lord Crewe; Charity is endowed with the Forster estates
1730s Repair of the village
1747 John Wesley preaches in the village and describes it and the Abbey as "little more than a heap of ruins"
1752 The Trustees repair Blanchland Abbey
1815 Further church repairs by the Trustees
1800s Lead mining and agricultural activity
1855 Trustees build Blachland School (it closes in 1981)
1930 WH Auden stays at the Lord Crewe Arms
1990s Village is used for filming of Jude the Obscure and Catherine Cookson's Gamblling Man and A Dinner of Herbs
2004 White Monk Tearooms open in the old school building
2012 The Lord Crewe Arms closes for refurbishment
2014. The Lord Crewe Arms reopens under new management