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Besford Court
Besford Court was the last great, gothic English country house. It is a Grade II*-listed building, located in the village of Besford.
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Radcliffe, Northumberland
Radcliffe was a mining community in Northumberland, located 1 km south of the town of Amble. Radcliffe was once home to over 700 people. It was an independent and self-sufficient settlement with its own schools, shops, churches and working men’s club.
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Besford Station
Besford railway station served the village of Besford, Worcestershire, from 1841 to 1846 on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway.
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La Boisselle
The village of La Boisselle is a settlement in the Somme department of northern France. It was the subject of heavy fighting during the First World War. George Besford was wounded here in the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916.
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Cowpen Square
Cowpen is situated on the southern bank of the River Blyth. The opening up of the Cowpen North and South pits at the end of the eighteenth century led to the building of Cowpen Square in order to house the coal miners and their families who came to Cowpen to work in these pits.
