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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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KIRKHAUGH, a parish in Haltwhistle district, Northumberland; on the South Tyne river, the Maiden way, and the Alston railway, adjacent to Cumberland, 2 miles SSE of Slaggyford r. station, and 2½ NW by N of Alston. Post town, Alston, under Carlisle. Acres, 6, 665. Real property, £1, 472. Pop., 223. Houses, 48. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to Greenwich Hospital. Much of the land is moor and mountain. Traces of a Roman station, occupying nearly 9 acres, and defended on the W side by ten breast works and trenches, are at Castle-Nook; and three Roman altars and fragments of a colossal statue have been found. Camden says that an inscription was erected here, and a palace built, in honour of the Emperor Antoninus, in 213, by the third cohort of the Nervii. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £70. Patron, R. W. Saunder, Esq. The church is good.
(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: | Kirkhaugh CP/AP Haltwhistle RegD/PLU Northumberland AncC |
| Place: | Kirkhaugh |
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