Walltown, Northumberland

Historical Description

Walltown, a township in Haltwhistle parish, Northumberland, on the Roman Wall, 2 miles NNW of Haltwhistle station on the N.E.R. Post town, Greenhead; money order and telegraph office, Haltwhistle. Acreage, 2982; population, 59. It contains the Roman station Esica, now called Great Chesters, and also the residence of Bishop Ridley's brother, now a farmhouse. There are quarries.

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Walltown 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