Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KIRKHARLE, or Harle-Kirk

KIRKHARLE, or Harle-Kirk, a township and a parish in Bellingham district, Northumberland. The township lies on the river Wansbeck, and on the Wansbeck Valley railway, near Scot's Gap station, 10 miles E of Bellingham; contains the hamlets of Kirkharle, Little Harle, and West Harle; and has a post office of the name of Harle, under Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Acres, 2, 140. Pop. in 1851, 164; in 1861, 118. Houses, 25. The parish includes also the township of Hawick, and comprises 3, 290 acres. Real property, £2, 403. Pop., 123. Houses, 26. The manor belonged, in the time of Edward I., to the Harles; passed, by marriage, to the Lorraines; and belongs now to T. Anderson, Esq. The old manor house, anciently called Kirkharle Tower, was recently taken down. A stone pillar, near the site of that building, commemorates the slaughter of Robert Lorraine and his son, by moss troopers, in the time of Elizabeth. Limestone is worked, and coal was formerly mined. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £185.* Patron, T. Anderson, Esq. The church is ancient, has been much mutilated, and contains a tomb of Richard Lorraine of 1738. Sir William de Herle, chief justice in the time of Edward III., and Launcelot Brown, the distinguished landscape gardener, commonly called Capability Brown, were natives.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kirkharle CP/AP       Bellingham RegD/PLU       Northumberland AncC
Place names: HARLE KIRK     |     KIRKHARLE     |     KIRKHARLE OR HARLE KIRK
Place: Kirkharle

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