CORSENSIDE, a parish in Bellingham district, Northumberland; on Watling-street and the river Reed, around Woodburn r. station, and 5½ miles NE of Bellingham. It includes the villages of East Woodburn and West Woodburn; the last of which has a post office under Hexham. Acres, 11, 132. Real property, £5, 175. Pop., 505. Houses, 108. The property is much sub-divided. Ironstone and limestone occur, and have been largely worked. The living is a rectory and vicarage in the dio. of Durham. Value, £275.* Patron, William Bewicke, Esq. The church is ancient, and was reported in 1859 as bad.

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