NEWBROUGH, or Newburgh, a parish, with a village, in Hexham district, Northumberland; on the South Tyne river, and on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, near the Roman wall, 1 mile W by N of Four-stones r. station, and 5 W N W of Hexham. It has a post-office under Hexham. Acres, 6, 705. Real property, £6, 659; of which £1, 400 are in miles. Pop. in 1851, 551; in 1861, 703. Houses, 136. The increase of pop. arose from the opening of new lead mines, and fromincrease of employment in the quarrying of freestone, and in the calcining of limestone. The S part, adjacent to the Tyne, is a rich tract; but the other parts arechiefly moorish upland. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Warden, in the diocese of Durham. The church is a neat stone building, with a tower. There are a United Free Methodist chapel, a mechanics'institute, and a national school.

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