Local Government
Widdrington Station and Stobswood lie within the Ulgham ward of the county-wide unitar county, Northumberland. Its county councillor is Cllr David J. Towns (Conservative) and the villages fall within the Druridge Bay Community Forum and the Northern Area Committee jurisdictions of the Council.
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