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Glendale Poor Law Union
THE GLENDALE POOR LAW UNION comprehends forty-five parishes and townships, embracing an area of 142,305 acres, and a population in 1851, 14,348 souls. The townships and parishes are Akeld, Brandon, Branton, Branxton, Bewick New, Bewick Old, Carham, Chatton, Chillingharn, Coldsmouth and Thornpson's Walls, Coupland, Crookhouse, Doddington, Earle, Ewart, Fawdon Clinch and Hartside, Ford, Grey's Forest, Heathpool, Hebburn, Howtell, Humbleton, Ilderton, Ingram, Linhop and Greenshawhill, Kilham, Kirk Newton, Lanton, Lilburn East, Lilburn West, Lowick, Middleton Hall, Middleton North, Middleton South, Milfield, Nesbit, Newton West, Newtown, Paston, Reaveley, Roddam, Rosedon, Selby's Forest, Wooler, Wooperton, and Yeavering.
THE UNION WORKHOUSE occupies a healthy situation at the west end or the town. It is a fine commodious building, erected in 1839, and will accommodate about seventy persons : there are at present fifty inmates. There is a school attached for the education of the pauper children. Governor and schoolmaster, Mr. George Paxton ; matron, Margery Allan ; surgeon, James Alexander ; clerk, William Wightman ; relieving officer and registrar, Thomas Carr.
Extract from: History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland...Whellan, William, & Co, 1855.
