Editing Mitford family (section)

==Background==
[[File:Redesdale_Escutcheon.png|thumb|right|150px|Arms of Freeman-Mitford]]
The family traces its origins in [[Northumberland]] back to the time of the [[Norman Conquest]]. [[England in the Middle Ages|In the Middle Ages]] they had been [[border reivers]] based in [[Redesdale]]. The main line had its [[family seat]] first at [[Mitford Castle]], then [[Mitford Old Manor House]], prior to building [[Mitford Hall]] in 1828. All three are near [[Mitford, Northumberland]]. Several heads of the family served as [[High Sheriff of Northumberland]]. 

A junior line, with seats at Newton Park, [[Northumberland]], and [[Exbury House]], [[Hampshire, England|Hampshire]], descends via the historian [[William Mitford]] (1744–1827) and were twice elevated to the [[British peerage]], in 1802 and 1902, under the title [[Baron Redesdale]].<ref>Burke's Peerage, 107th edn. (London 2003).</ref> This branch of the family, to whom the Mitford sisters belonged, were seated at [[Batsford Park]], Gloucestershire, and then at [[Asthall Manor]] and Swinbrook, in Oxfordshire.