Hepburn, Northumberland

Hepburn is a hamlet in Northumberland, England, in the parish of Chillingham.

Etymology

The standard authorities give Hepburn as in origin an Old English name deriving from heah 'high' + byrgen 'burial mound'.^[1]

↑ Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).

Ceremonial county of Northumberland

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Unitary authorities	Northumberland

Major settlements	Alnwick Amble Ashington Bedlington Berwick-upon-Tweed Blyth Cramlington Haltwhistle Hexham Morpeth Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Ponteland Prudhoe Rothbury Wooler See also: List of civil parishes in Northumberland

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