Knarsdale, Northumberland

Historical Description

Knarsdale, a village and a parish in Northumberland,; on the South Tyne river, 3 miles from Lambley station on the N.E.R., and 7 SSW of Haltwhistle. There is a railway station at Slaggyford. The parish includes Slaggyford, Burn-stones, Eals, Town Green, and Williamston hamlets, and extends westward to the boundary with Cumberland. Post town, Slaggyford, under Carlisle. Acreage, 15, 593; population, 382. The manor belongs to the Hope-Wallace family. Knarsdale Hall was the seat of the Pratts, the Swinbumes, and the Wallaces, and is now a farmhouse. A streamlet called the Knarr, descending to the South Tyne, gives to th— parish its name of Knarsdale. Most of the land is moor and mountain. —A lead mine is supposed to have been worked within the parish by the Romans. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Newcastle; gross value, £153 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was built in 1833, and restored and enlarged in 1892, when a chancel and chancel-screen were added. There are Wesleyan chapels at Eals and Slaggyford.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Knarsdale from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Knaresdale)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Knarsdale 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:

• Morpeth Herald
• Berwickshire News and General Advertiser
• The Berwick Advertiser
• Alnwick Mercury
• Illustrated Berwick Journal