Falstone, Northumberland
Historical Description
Falstone, a village and a parish in Northumberland. The village stands on the North Tyne river, and is connected with Stannersburn by a fine stone bridge of three arches, erected in 1853, adjacent to the Border Counties section of the North British railway, 8 miles NW of Bellingham, and has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office. The parish includes the townships of Wellhaugh and PIashetts, and was formed out of Simonburn in 1811. Population, 590. The surface includes some valley-land, but is mainly wild moor and mountainous land. Game abounds, coal is plentiful, and there are several mineral springs. There are collieries and freestone and limestone quarries. Near here is Kielder Castle, a shooting box of the Duke of Northumberland. Numerous traces exist of strongholds of the ancient Britons, and there is a complete specimen of a border peel tower. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £272 with residence. Patrons, the 'Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital. The church is a small building in the Perpendicular style, and was restored in 1892, ½ind there is an English Presbyterian chapel, rebuilt in 1876.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Northumberland | |
Poor Law union | Bellingham | |
Ward | Tindale |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Falstone from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Falstone are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers related to Northumberland online: