Healey, Northumberland
Historical Description
Healey, a township and district chapelry in Bywell St Peter parish, Northumberland, 4 miles S of Riding Mill station on the N.E.R., and 7 SE of Hexham. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Riding Mill (R.S.O.) Acreage, 2389; population of township, 96; of the ecclesiastical district, 290. A small church, in the Norman style, was built in 1860. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle-on-Tyne; gross value,, £250 with residence.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Northumberland | |
| Civil parish | Bywell St Peter | |
| Poor Law union | Hexham | |
| Ward | Tindale |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Healey from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Healey 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: