The weathered nature of the stonework indicates that it has spent a significant length of time exposed to the elements, before being incorporated into the fabric of the present church.

However, the destruction of the surrounding countryside for open-cast mining, and the disappearance of farm buildings and stone barns means that owls are seldom heard or seen.

In the middle of Park Wood, now neighboured by open-cast mining, grew the Ulgham Oak, where, it is said, whisky was once distilled illicitly.

He was the son of a farmer but he went to work in his uncle's grocery shop in Morpeth, and it was while he was there that his talent for drawing brought him to the notice of an influential peer who, in April 1797, had him apprenticed to Thomas Bewick at Newcastle.

Clennell moved to London in 1804, having acquired much of Bewick's feeling for nature and a distinct ability for landscape and rural scenes.

There is a stone to his memory in St Andrew's Church in Newcastle, and three of his pictures are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington.

During the First World War the vicar of Ulgham gathered around him eager members of the village and they began play readings.

The evening class rates were increased and travelling expenses rose and members had reluctantly to close the Ulgham Players.

The pleasure and friendly entertainment they gave over many years still lives on in the memories of the people of Ulgham and surrounding district.