Greystead, Northumberland
Historical Description
Greystead, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish in Northumberland, on the S side of the North Tyne, 5 miles from Bellingham, and 1½ mile from Tarset station on the North British railway. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Falstone. Population of ecclesiastical parish, 205. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £132 with residence. Patron, Greenwich Hospital. The church is a building in the Gothic style, and was restored in 1879.
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 Greystead from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Greystead, or Gaystead)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Greystead 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: