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Newbrough Parochial Chapelry, 1855
Extract from: History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland...Whellan, William, & Co, 1855.
NEWBROUGH is a chapelry, township, and village, the property of the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, the Duke of Northumberland, Mrs Wastell, Nicholas Todd, Esq., Nicholas Maughan, Esq., and the Rev. John Frederick Bigge, each of whom claims the manorial rights and privileges of his own property. This Chapelry acknowledges Warden as the mother church. The township comprises an area of 6,705 acres, and its rateable value is £4,940. Population in 1801, 429; in 1811, 464; in 1821, 451; in 1831, 494; in 1841, 547; and in 1851, 551 souls. There are two extensive lead mines in this chapelry, one situated at Settling Stones, worked by Messrs. Hall; and the other at Stonecroft, carried on under the name of the Stonecroft Lead Mine Company, was established in 1851, on the property of Nicholas Todd, Esq..
THE VILLAGE of Newbrough is pleasantly situated on the north side of the Tyne, four and three-quarter miles north-west by north of Hexham. THE CHAPEL, dedicated to Saint Peter, is a neat stone edifice, with a square tower, and stands a short distance west of the village. The register of this chapelry is kept with that of Warden. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the presentation of the Vicar of Warden, and incumbency of the Rev. Christopher Bird junr., B .A. There was a school erected here by subscription, in 1818, upon the property of the late Rev. Henry Wastell, but the site not having been conveyed into the hands of trustees, his family have since resumed the grant. In 1853, another school was erected by subscription under grant from the Committee of Council on Education, on land east of the village, granted by the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital. NEWBROUGH READING ROOM AND MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY, was established in 1849. The building in which the meetings of this society have been held, having become too small for the increasing number of members, they are now (1854) erecting a more suitable one, on a site generously given by the Rev. J.F. Bigge, of Stamfordham.
ALLERWASH is a hamlet in this chapelry, situated on the South Tyne, four and three quarter miles W.N.W. of Hexham. BUSH is another hamlet, 4 miles W.N.W. of the same place. WOODSHIELDS is also a hamlet, situated 2¼ miles E.N.E. of Haydon Bridge.
POST OFFICE, NEWBROUGH, Ann Carr, postmistress. Letters arrive here, from Hexham, at 4:00 PM, and are dispatched there too at 8:00 AM
DIRECTORY
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Benson William, coal proprietor, etc. Allerwash House; Works, Fourstones Bell Christopher, mason Charlton George, shoemaker Charlton Thomas, cartwright Corbett Thomas, blacksmith Coulson Gustavus H. Esq. Cranston Margaret, schoolmistress Forster Charles, schoolmaster Forster Joseph, shopkeeper Hetherington John, shoemaker Hindmarsh Edward, shopkeeper Hindmarsh John and Thomas, millers Middleton Miss Janet Maria Nicholson John, shopkeeper Parker Thomas, cart proprietor, Stonecroft |
Stokoe Anne, beerhouse, Allerwash Surtees George, joiner Surtees Richard, vict. Red Lion, & butcher Welsh Gilbert, cart proprietor, Stonecroft Farmers Dickinson William, East Wharmly Fairless William Gibson George, the Bush Magnay Charles, Settling Stones Reed Robert Ridley George Robson Matthew, Allerwash Snowball Cuthbert, yeoman, West Wharmly Temperly Robert, Allerwash Thompson Thomas, Carrow Todd Nicholas, Yeoman, Stonecroft |
CARRIER to Newcastle, Edward Hindmarsh on Wednesdays.
