Longhorsley Northumberland Family History Guide

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Longhorsley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northumberland.

Other places in the parish include: Witton Shields, Wingates Moor, Wingates, Wholm, Todburn, Stanton, Riddell’s Quarter, Moresley Moor, Longshaws, Longhorsley Moor, Garrotlee, Freeholders’ Quarter, Chirn, Carlisle’s Quarter, and Bigge’s Quarter.

Alternative names: Long Horsley

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1668
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1769

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Longhorsley 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.

Longhorsley Bishops Transcripts 1769-1830

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HORSLEY (LONG), a village in Morpeth district, and a parish partly also in Rothbury district, Northumberland. The village stands on a branch of the river Coquet, 4¾ miles W by S of Widdrington r. station, and 6 NW by N of Morpeth; and has a post-office under Morpeth.

The parish comprises the townships of Witton-Shields, Stanton, Longshaws, Bigges-Quarter, Riddells-Quarter, Freeholders-Quarter, Todburn, and Wingates. Acres, 12, 849. Real property, £7, 463; of which £38 are in mines. Pop., 964. Houses, 201. The manor belonged to Gospatrick, passed to the Merlays, and belongs now to Thomas Riddell and Henry J. Baker, Esqs. An old tower of the Riddells stands at the W end of the parish, and is used as a Roman Catholic chapel.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £336. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is modern, and has a bell turret. There is a national school.

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

Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

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