Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HENSHAW

HENSHAW, a township in Haltwhistle parish, Northumberland; on the South Tyne river, and on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, near Bardon-Mill r. station, 3½ miles E of Haltwhistle. Acres, 11, 255. Pop., 550. Houses, 126. The manor belongs to Sir Edward Blackett. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Haltwhistle AP/CP       Henshaw Tn/CP       Northumberland AncC
Place: Henshaw

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