Beanley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hedgeley in the county of Northumberland, England. It is situated to the north-west of Alnwick, near Eglingham. In 1951 the parish had a population of 53. In 1870–1872, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Beanley as "a township in Eglingham parish, Northumberland; on the river Breamish, 7 miles NW of Alnwick. Acres, 2,341. Pop., 116. Houses, 23. The earls of Dunbar anciently held it on the tenure of maintaining a road into Scotland. A cross stands on Hedgeley-moor, at a short distance from the village, erected to the memory of Sir Ralph Percy, who fell in 1464 in a battle with the Yorkists." Governance Beanley is in the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Beanley was formerly a township in Eglingham parish, from 1866 Beanley was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1955 and merged with Hedgeley. See also Bewick and Beanley Moors SSSI References External links Villages in Northumberland Former civil parishes in Northumberland