Birtley, Northumberland
Historical Description
Birtley, a village and a parish in Northumberland, on the North Tyne river and on the North British railway, near Wark station, 5 miles SE of Bellingham. The parish includes the township of Broomhope with Buteland, and it has a post office under Wark (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 6980; population of the civil parish, 387; of the ecclesiastical, 474. Coal and other useful minerals occur. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £200. Patron, the Duke of Northumberland, who is also lord of the manor and chief landowner. The church is ancient, and was enlarged by the addition of a tower and spire in 1883, and restored in 1884. There is a literary institute.
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.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Birtley from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Birtley 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: