In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ord like this:
ORD, a township, with a village, in Tweedmouth parish, Northumberland; on the river Tweed, and on the Tweedmouth and Kelso railway, 1 mile W of Tweed-mouth. Acres, 2, 568. Pop. in 1851, 914; in 1861, 762. Houses, 155. Ord House is a chief residence. Anembankment at the W end of the village commands a fine vista-view of the Merse. Traces of a Roman camp, connected with Watling-street, are in a field to the W.
Ord through time
Ord is now part of Berwick upon Tweed district. Click here for graphs and data of how Berwick upon Tweed has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ord itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ord, in Berwick upon Tweed and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9588
Date accessed: 27th April 2024
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