Woodhorn Northumberland Family History Guide

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Woodhorn is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northumberland.

Other places in the parish include: Lynemouth, Linmouth, Hurst, Hirst, Ellington, East Hartford, Cowpen, Bebside, Woodhorn Demesne, West Hartford, South Linton, North Seaton, Newbiggin near Morpeth, Newbiggin by the Sea, Newbiggin, and Lynmouth.

Parish registers begin:

Woodhorn

  • Parish registers: 1605
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1760

Newbiggin by the Sea

  • Parish registers: 1662
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1760

Nonconformists include: Methodist New Connexion, Roman Catholic, United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Woodhorn 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.

Woodhorn Bishops Transcripts 1760-1878

Newbiggin by the Sea Bishops Transcripts 1760-1878

Parish History

Woodhorn

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WOODHORN, a township and a parish in Morpeth district, Northumberland. The township lies on the coast, 2½ miles N of North Seaton r. station, and 8 ENE of Morpeth. Acres, 2,558; of which 1,082 are water. Pop., 171. Houses, 31.

The parish includes Newbiggin township, which has a post-office under Morpeth, North Seaton township, where is the r. station, and five other townships; and comprises 8,456 acres. Real property, £12,116; of which £2,000 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1,598; in 1861, 2,962. Houses, 530. The increase of pop. was mainly in North Seaton, and arose there from extension of collieries. The property is chiefly divided among four.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £512. Patron, the Bishop of D. The church was partially rebuilt in 1843. A chapel of ease is at Newbiggin. National and infant schools, opened in 1869, also are there . The p. curacy of Creswell is a separate benefice. Charities, £21.

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

Newbiggin

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NEWBIGGIN, a village and a township-chapelry in Woodhorn parish, Northumberland. The village stands on the coast, near North Seaton r. station, 1½ mile N of the mouth of the Wansbeck river, and 7¼ E by N of Morpeth; is a fishing-station and a watering place; is sometimes called Newbiggin-by-the-Sea; and has a post-office, of that name, under Morpeth, a good inn, a coast-guard station, a life-boat station, and a roadstead with tolerably secure anchorage for small vessels.

The chapelry comprises 400 acres. Real property, £1,586. Pop. in 1851, 717; in 1861, 948. Houses, 184. The increase of pop. arose from extension of fisheries and from increased accommodation for summer visitors. A beautiful small bay adjoins the village, and has firm, smooth, safe sands. Several collieries are in the neighbourhood.

The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Woodhorn, in the diocese of Durham. The church was rebuilt in 1846; has a low spire; contained the effigies of a knight, discovered in 1867; stands picturesquely on a point projecting into the sea on the N side of the bay; and serves as a landmark to mariners. There are chapels for Presbyterians and Wesleyans, a parochial school, and a subscription library and reading-rooms.

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

North Seaton

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SEATON (North), a township in Woodhorn parish, Northumberland; on the coast, at the N side of the Wansbeck river’s mouth, and at the terminus of a branch of the Blyth and Tyne railway, 6½ miles E of Morpeth. Acres, 1,210; of which 100 are water. Pop. in 1851, 146; in 1861, 1,262. Houses, 209. The increase of pop. arose from the extension of collieries. N. S. House is the chief residence.

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

Maps

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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