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Haltwhistle in Northumberland County England History and GeographyHALTWHISTLE, a parish in the western division of TINDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, comprising the market town of Haltwhistle, and the townships of Bellester, Blenkinsop, East Coanwood, Featherston, Hartley-Burn, Henshaw, Melkridge, Plainmellor, Ridley, Thirlwall, Thorngrafton, and Wall-Town, and containing 3583 inhabitants, of which number, 707 are in the town of Haltwhistle, 36 miles (W.) from Newcastle, and 315 (N.N.W.) from London. This town, formerly called Haltwesel, is pleasantly situated on the high road from Carlisle to Newcastle, on an eminence which commands a rich and extensive prospect of the surrounding country, and of the windings of the river Tyne through its fertile vale. The buildings are irregular, and there are but few good houses; the streets are neither paved nor lighted, but the inhabitants are plentifully supplied with water from wells, and from brooks which are situated northward from the town. The only branch of manufacture is one of coarse baize, recently introduced. A market, in which grain is sold, is occasionally held on Thursday; and the fairs are on the 14th of May and the 22nd of November, chiefly for cattle; those on the 12th of May and the 11th of November are statute fairs. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northumberland, and diocese of Durham, rated in the king's books at £12. 3. 1½., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Durham. The church, which is dedicated to the Holy Cross, stands on an eminence southward from the town; from the church-yard there is a beautiful and extensive prospect. Here are places of worship for Primitive Methodists and Presbyterians. A charity school was founded and endowed with £35 per annum, arising from lands at Faversham, in Kent, in the year 1719, by Dorothy Capel, Baroness Dowager of Tewkesbury: the number of boys at present is about eighty: the master receives a salary of £30 per annum, with a small quarterly payment from the scholars. The vicar of this parish allows £10 per annum to a schoolmaster at Greenhead, for instructing the children of labourers. On an eminence eastward of the church are the vestiges of a fort, environed on all sides but the south by an embankment of turf; in the centre of the enclosure is a large spring, which from neglect has converted the place into a bog. In the township of Thirlwall are the remains of a castle, formerly one of the boundary forts between England and Scotland. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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