Spital Hill, Northumberland
Historical Description
Spital Hill, a township in Mitford parish, Northumberland, 1½ mile NW of Morpeth. Post town, Morpeth. Acreage, 157; population, 21.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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 | Mitford | |
| Poor Law union | Morpeth | |
| Ward | Morpeth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Spital Hill from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Spittle-Hill)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Spital Hill 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: