Corsenside, Northumberland
Historical Description
Corsenside, a township and a parish in Northumberland, on Watling Street and the river Reed, around Woodburn railway station, and 5½ miles NE of Bellingham. The parish, ' Includes the villages of East Woodbum and West Woodburn, and the hamlets of Ridsdale and Cragg. It has a post and money order office at West Woodburn; telegraph office, Bellingham. Acreage, 11,455 of land and 49 of water; population, 621. The Duke of Northumberland is lord of the manor. Ironstone and limestone occur, and have been largely worked. At Eidsdale are iron mines, the property of Armstrong, Mitchell & Co., Ltd. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle; value, £209. The church is small and ancient, and was restored and reseated in 1875-76. There is a Free Methodist chapel and a small chapel of ease.
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 Corsenside from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Corsenside are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- 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: