Seaton Sluice or Hartley Pans, Northumberland

Historical Description

Seaton Sluice or Hartley Pans, a seaport village in Hartley township, Earsdon parish, Northumberland, 3½ miles SSE of Blyth, and 1½ mile from Hartley station on the N.E.R. It has a post office under Whitley (R.S.O.); money order office, New Hartley; telegraph office, Seaton Delaval. A harbour was formed here out of solid rock in the time of Charles I., by Sir A. Delaval, was much improved by Lord Delaval, has capacity for about 14 vessels, and is used for exporting coals. There is a Presbyterian 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 Seaton Sluice or Hartley Pans from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, 1848 (Seaton-Sluice, or Hartley-Pans)

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