Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LONGHIRST

LONGHIRST, a township in Bothal parish, Northumberland; on the Northeastern railway, 2½ miles NE of Morpeth. It has a station on the railway. Acres, 1,703. Pop., 253. Houses, 55. Longhirst Hall and Longhirst Grange are chief residences. There are a national school and a reading-room.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bothal AP/CP       Longhirst CP/Tn       Northumberland AncC
Place: Longhirst

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