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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Long Horsley like this:
HORSLEY (LONG), a village in Morpeth district, and a parish partly also in Rothbury district, Northumberland. The village stands on a branch of the river Coquet, 4¾ miles W by S of Widdrington r. station, and 6 NW by N of Morpeth; and has a post office under Morpeth.—The parish comprises the townships of WittonShields, Stanton, Longshaws, Bigges-Quarter, RiddellsQuarter, Freeholders-Quarter, Todburn, and Wingates. ...
Acres, 12, 849. Real property, £7, 463; of which £38 are in mines. Pop., 964. Houses, 201. The manor belonged to Gospatrick, passed to the Merlays, and belongs now to Thomas Riddell and Henry J. Baker, Esqs. An old tower of the Riddells stands at the W end of the parish, and is used as a Roman Catholic chapel. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £336. * Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is modern, and has a bell turret. There is a national school.
Long Horsley is now part of NORTHUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTHUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Long Horsley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Long Horsley in Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20356
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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