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KNARESDALE, a parish in Haltwhistle district, Northumberland; on the South Tyne river and the Alston railway, 7 miles SSW of Haltwhistle. It contains Slaggyford r. station; includes Slaggyford, Burnstones, Eals, Town-Green, and Williamston hamlets; and extends westward to the boundary with Cumberland. Posttown, Alston, under Carlisle. Acres, 17, 144. Real property, £1, 984. Pop. in 1851, 917; in 1861, 532. Houses, 104. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to the trustees of Lord Wal1ace. Knaresdale Hall was the seat of the Pratts, the Swinburnes, and the Wallaces; and is now a farm house. A streamlet, called the Knare, descending to the South Tyne, gives to the parish its name of Knaresdale. An extensive forest anciently spread around, and was well replenished with red deer. Most of the land is moor and mountain. A medicinal spring, called Snope well, is on the side of a fell. A lead mine is supposed to have been worked within the parish by the Romans. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £150.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was rebuilt in 1835. A Wesleyan chapel is at Slaggyford; and a national school is at Town Green.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Knarsdale CP/AP Haltwhistle RegD/PLU Northumberland AncC |
| Place: | Knarsdale |
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