Capheaton
{{Short description|Village and civil parish in England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2019}}
{{infobox UK place
|static_image_name = For a garden designer this looks a bit bare - geograph.org.uk - 157102.jpg
|static_image_caption = Capheaton
|official_name = Capheaton
|os_grid_reference = NZ038804
|coordinates = {{coord|55|07|03|N|1|56|50|W|type:city(200)_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
|unitary_england= Northumberland
|lieutenancy_england= Northumberland
|region = North East England
|country = England
|post_town = NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
|postcode_area = NE
|postcode_district = NE19
|dial_code = 01830
|constituency_westminster= Berwick-upon-Tweed
|population = 160
}}
Capheaton is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England, about {{convert|25|mi|0}} to the northwest of Newcastle upon Tyne. The population at the 2001 census was 160, increasing to 175 at the 2011 Census.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11121625&c=capheaton&d=16&e=62&g=6453232&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1453990589750&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=28 January 2016}} It was built as a planned model village in the late eighteenth century. The name Capheaton derives from Caput Heaton, i.e., Heaton Magna, nearby Kirkheaton being the original Heaton Parva.{{cite book
| last = Hugill
| first = Robert
| title = Road Guide to Northumberland and The Border
| publisher = Andrew Reid & Company, Limited
| year = 1931
| location = Newcastle upon Tyne, England
| page = 17 }}
The Capheaton archives are at the Northumberland Record Office.
Governance
Capheaton is in the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Landmarks
File:British Museum Capheaton Handle.jpg
The Devil's Causeway passes the village just over {{convert|1|mi|0}} to the east. The causeway is a Roman road which starts at Port Gate on Hadrian's Wall, north of Corbridge, and extends {{convert|55|mi|0}} northwards across Northumberland to the mouth of the River Tweed at Berwick-upon-Tweed. A Roman-British silver treasure was found in the village in the eighteenth century. Known as the Capheaton Treasure, it is now in the British Museum.[https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?place=6318&plaA=6318-3-1 British Museum Collection]
Capheaton Hall is an English country house, the seat of the Swinburne Baronets and the childhood home of the poet Algernon Swinburne. It counts among the principal gentry seats of Northumberland.[http://www.genuki.bpears.org.uk/NBL/Gaz1868.html National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1868.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505010924/http://www.genuki.bpears.org.uk/NBL/Gaz1868.html |date=2013-05-05 }} It is a Grade I listed building.
The house, which was built for Sir John Swinburne in 1667–68Dated contract, noted in Colvin, sv. "Robert Trollope". by Robert Trollope of Newcastle, is a provincial essay in Baroque, of local stone with a giant pilasters on high bases supporting sections of entablature dividing the main front into a wide central bay and flanking bays, under a sloping roof with vernacular flat-footed dormers. The estate was improved with a model farm in Gothic taste, designed by Daniel Garrett for Sir John Swinburne, ca 1746, one of the earliest examples of the Gothic Revival. The north front was rebuilt for Sir John in 1789-90 by a local architect, William Newton.
File:East Shaftoe Hall (geograph 4226588).jpg
The house stands in rolling parkland in the manner of Capability Brown. The naturalistic setting of Sir Edward's Lake south of the house was designated a Site of Nature Conservation Importance in 1983 for the wintering and breeding wildfowl it harbours.
Two miles north-east of the village is East Shaftoe Hall, a mostly 16th century house, much altered in the 17th and 18th centuries, which incorporates a peel tower dating from the late 13th or early 14th century.[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-238600-east-shaftoe-hall-capheaton East Shaftoe Hall at British Listed Buildings Online]
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