Baron Widdrington

Baron Widdrington, of Blankney in the County of Lincoln, was a title in the Peerage of England.

[1] He had already been created a baronet, of Widdrington in the County of Northumberland, in the Baronetage of England on 9 July 1642.

The Widdringtons were an ancient Northumbrian family who gave their name to (or took their name from) the village, near Morpeth, Northumberland.

As a consequence of the subsequent attainder of the brothers, the Widdrington estates were sequestered and sold by the Crown, and the title was forfeited.

Of their three great houses no traces now remain: Widdrington Castle was demolished in 1862 (although the site is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument); Stella Hall, Blaydon on Tyne, was demolished in 1954; and Blankney Hall, Lincolnshire suffered the same fate in 1960.