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

Adjacent Parishes

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

FamilySearch

England, Northumberland, Knaresdale – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Knaresdale, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Northumberland, Knaresdale – Church records ( 6 )
England, Northumberland, Knaresdale, bishop’s transcripts, 1769-1856
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Knaresdale (Northumberland); Durham University Library

England, Northumberland, Knaresdale, parish chest records, 1764-1882
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Knaresdale (Northumberland); Northumberland Archives Service (Ashington, Northumberland)

England, Northumberland, Knaresdale, parish registers, 1695-1950
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Knaresdale (Northumberland); Northumberland Archives Service (Ashington, Northumberland)

Parish chest records of Knaresdale, Northumberland, 1764-1902
Author: Knaresdale (Northumberland)

Parish register transcripts, 1695-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Knaresdale (Northumberland); Robinson, John Walton

Parish registers of Knaresdale, Northumberland, 1695-1956
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Knaresdale (Northumberland)

England, Northumberland, Knaresdale – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Knarsdale, Northumberland, England

England, Northumberland, Knaresdale – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 2 )
England, Northumberland, Knaresdale, parish chest records, 1764-1882
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Knaresdale (Northumberland); Northumberland Archives Service (Ashington, Northumberland)

Parish chest records of Knaresdale, Northumberland, 1764-1902
Author: Knaresdale (Northumberland)

England, Northumberland, Knaresdale – Schools ( 1 )
School records of Knaresdale Church of England School, 1863-1926
Author: Knaresdale Church of England School (Knaresdale, Northumberland)

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