Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BELTINGHAM

BELTINGHAM, a chapelry in Haltwhistle parish, Northumberland; on the South Tyne, adjacent to the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, near Bardon Mill station, 4 miles W of Haydon Bridge. Post Town, Bardon Mill, under Carlisle. Statistics not separately reported. A market was formerly held here; and there is a very old and large yew in the churchyard. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £87. Patron, the Vicar of Haltwhistle. The church is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Haltwhistle AP/CP       Northumberland AncC
Place: Beltingham

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