Horsley, Northumberland
Historical Description
Horsley, a township in Ovingham parish, Northumberland, near the Roman wall and the river Tyne, 2½ miles NW of Wylam station on the N.E.R. It has a post and money order office under Wylam (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Wylam.. Acreage, 1531; population, 383. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels.
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 | Ovingham | |
| 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 Horsley from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Horsley 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: