Mickley, Northumberland
Historical Description
Mickley, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Ovingham parish, Northumberland. The township lies near a side station on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, 9¼ miles E by S of Hexham, and 2½ from Prudhoe station on the N.E.R., and contains the hamlets of Cherrybum and Mount Pleasant and the village of Mickley Square, which has a post and money order office under Stocksfield; telegraph office, Prudhoe. Acreage, 1431; population of the township, 1450; of the ecclesiastical parish, 2085. Coal-mining and coking are largely carried on by the Mickley Coal Company. The ecclesiastical parish contains also six other townships. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £209. The church was built in 1824, is in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, transepts, and a belfry; it was restored and enlarged in 1886. There is a parish hall, and a workmen's club and reading-room, erected in 1894.
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 Mickley from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Mickley 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
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