Plashetts, Northumberland

Historical Description

Plashetts, a township in Falstone parish, Northumberland, with a station on the Border Counties railway, adjacent to the North Tyne river, 13½ miles NW of Bellingham. The township lies around the station and bears the name of Plashetts and Tynehead, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Acreage, 29,230; population, 340. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Most of the surface is moor and mountain, and coal is largely worked. There is a Free Methodist chapel.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Plashetts from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

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