Kirkharle Northumberland Family History Guide

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Kirkharle is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northumberland.

Other places in the parish include: Thrivewell, Shield Hill, Mirlow House, Little Harle, Kidlaw, Hawick, Greatlaw, and Bibridge.

Alternative names: Kirk Harle, Harle Kirk

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1692
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1762

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Kirkharle Parish Registers

Bishops Transcripts

Explore the Bishops’ Transcripts for the Diocese of Durham (1639–1919) – This collection offers parish register copies submitted annually to the Bishop, covering baptisms, marriages, and burials across Durham, Northumberland, and parts of Yorkshire and Cumberland. Ideal for tracing ancestors when original registers are missing or incomplete.

Kirkharle Bishops Transcripts 1762-1845

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

KIRKHARLE, or Harle-Kirk, a township and a parish in Bellingham district, Northumberland. The township lies on the river Wansbeck, and on the Wansbeck Valley railway, near Scot’s Gap station, 10 miles E of Bellingham; contains the hamlets of Kirkharle, Little Harle, and West Harle; and has a post-office of the name of Harle, under Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Acres, 2,140. Pop. in 1851, 164; in 1861, 118. Houses, 25.

The parish includes also the township of Hawick, and comprises 3,290 acres. Real property, £2,403. Pop., 123. Houses, 26. The manor belonged, in the time of Edward I., to the Harles; passed, by marriage, to the Lorraines; and belongs now to T. Anderson, Esq. The old manor house, anciently called Kirkharle Tower, was recently taken down. A stone pillar, near the site of that building, commemorates the slaughter of Robert Lorraine and his son, by moss troopers, in the time of Elizabeth. Limestone is worked, and coal was formerly mined.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £185. Patron, T. Anderson, Esq. The church is ancient, has been much mutilated, and contains a tomb of Richard Lorraine of 1738. Sir William de Herle, chief justice in the time of Edward III., and Launcelot Brown, the distinguished landscape gardener, commonly called Capability Brown, were natives.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

  • County: Northumberland
  • Civil Registration District: Bellingham
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Durham
  • Rural Deanery: Bellingham
  • Poor Law Union: Bellingham
  • Hundred: Tynedale Ward
  • Province: York