WHITFIELD, a parish, with a hamlet, in Haltwhistle district, Northumberland; on the river Allen, 8½ miles SW of Haydon-Bridge r. station. It has a post-office under Carlisle and a good inn. Acres, 12,125. Real property, £4,720; of which £173 are in mines. Pop., 381. Houses, 63. The manor belonged anciently to the Whitfields; and, with W. Hall, belongs now to Mrs. Blackett Ord. The tract along the river is good and picturesque; but the rest of the surface is high, moorish, and waste. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £320.* Patron, Mrs. Blackett Ord. The church was rebuilt in 1860; is in the early English style and cruciform; and has a central tower and spire 150 feet high.

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