Knaresdale Northumberland Family History Guide
Knaresdale is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northumberland.
Other places in the parish include: Williamston, Town Green, Slaggyford, Eals, and Burnstones.
Alternative names: Knarsdale
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1695
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1769
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Alston with Garrigill, Cumberland
- Lambley
- Geltsdale, Cumberland
- Midgeholme, Cumberland
- Whitfield
- Haltwhistle
- Kirkhaugh
- Croglin, Cumberland
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KNARESDALE, a parish in Haltwhistle district, Northumberland; on the South Tyne river and the Alston railway, 7 miles SSW of Haltwhistle.
It contains Slaggyford r. station; includes Slaggyford, Burnstones, Eals, Town-Green, and Williamston hamlets; and extends westward to the boundary with Cumberland. Post town, Alston, under Carlisle. Acres, 17, 144. Real property, £1, 984. Pop. in 1851, 917; in 1861, 532. Houses, 104. The property is subdivided.
The manor belongs to the trustees of Lord Wallace. Knaresdale Hall was the seat of the Pratts, the Swinburnes, and the Wallaces; and is now a farm house.
A streamlet, called the Knare, descending to the South Tyne, gives to the parish its name of Knaresdale. An extensive forest anciently spread around, and was well replenished with red deer. Most of the land is moor and mountain. A medicinal spring, called Snope well, is on the side of a fell. A lead mine is supposed to have been worked within the parish by the Romans.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £150. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was rebuilt in 1835. A Wesleyan chapel is at Slaggyford; and a national school is at Town Green.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Northumberland
- Civil Registration District: Haltwhistle
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Durham
- Rural Deanery: Hexham
- Poor Law Union: Haltwhistle
- Hundred: Tynedale Ward
- Province: York