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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Whitley Chapel like this:
WHITLEY, a chapelry in Hexham district, Northumberland; on Devils water, 5 miles S of Hexham r. sta tion. Post town, Hexham. Pop., 419. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £124. Patron, W. B. Beaumont, Esq.
Whitley Chapel is now part of NORTHUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTHUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Whitley Chapel itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Whitley Chapel in Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25276
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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