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Haltwhistle Poor Law Union
THE HALTWHISTLE POOR LAW UNION comprehends seventeen parishes and townships, including an area of 83,661 statute acres, and a population, in 1851, of 7,286 souls. The parishes and townships are Bellister, Blenkinsopp, Coanwood, Featherstone, Haltwhistle, Hartleyburn, Henshaw, Kirkhaugh, Knaresdale, Lambley, Melkridge, Plainmellor, Ridley, Thirlwall, Thorngrafton, Wall-Town, and Whitfield.
THE UNION WORKHOUSE is a plain stone edifice, erected in 1840, and is capable of accommodating about sixty persons. The number of inmates at present (1854) is twenty-six. Edward Dowley, master; Ann Dowley, matron; Robert Elliott, surgeon; Robert Pickering, clerk ; and George Pickering, relieving officer.
Extract from: History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland...Whellan, William, & Co, 1855.
