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Tarset
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Also known as Tarset, Northumberland

Tarset is a civil parish in Northumberland, England, created in 1955 from parts of Bellingham, Tarset West and Thorneyburn parishes. It is west-north-west of Bellingham. Today it shares a parish council with the adjacent parish of Greystead. It is partly located within the Northumberland National Park, and also mostly within the international dark skies park.

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Place details

Locality
Greenhaugh
Region
England
Country
United Kingdom
Population
0

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Key facts

UK place.official_name
Tarset
UK place.os_grid_reference
NY792854
UK place.population
289
UK place.population_ref
(2011(including Greystead))
UK place.unitary_england
Northumberland
UK place.lieutenancy_england
Northumberland
UK place.region
North East England
UK place.country
England
UK place.post_town
HEXHAM
UK place.postcode_area
NE
UK place.postcode_district
NE48
UK place.constituency_westminster
Hexham

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Wikidata facts

Population
289
Image
Tarset Hall - geograph.org.uk - 700831.jpg
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Tarset
OS grid reference
NY792854
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Tarset is a civil parish in Northumberland, England, created in 1955 from parts of Bellingham, Tarset West and Thorneyburn parishes. It is west-north-west of Bellingham. Today it shares a parish council with the adjacent parish of Greystead. It is partly located within the Northumberland National Park, and also mostly within the international dark skies park.

== History == left|150px|thumb|Dally Castle The Comyns, Scottish knights, were established in Tynedale in the 12th century and the manor of Tarset was granted to William Comyn in around 1222. Licence to crenellate was granted to John Comyn in 1267, and Tarset Castle was built half a mile south-west of the present village, of which only grassed-over remains can now be seen. Two miles to the south-west on Birks Moor are the remains of the fortified house known as Dally Castle, believed to have been erected by David Linsey in his manor of Chirdon.

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