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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Hedley Woodside from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "HEDLEY-ON-THE-HILL, and HEDLEY-WOODSIDE, two townships in Ovingham parish, Northumberland; adjacent to the boundary with Durham, 3 miles SE of Stocksfield [railway] station, and 10 ESE of Hexham. Acres: 1,399 and 1,364. Populations: 241 and 69. Houses: 48 and 8. The manor belongs to the Duke of Northumberland. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Hedley Woodside was a township in the ancient parish of Ovingham and became a separate civil parish in 1866. In 1887 it was absorbed into the neighbouring parish of Hedley.
Research Tips
- Northumberland Archives previously known as Northumberland Collections Service and Northumberland County Record Office. Now based within Woodhorn Museum in Ashington and providing free access to numerous records for local and family historians alike.
- Full postal address: Museum and Northumberland Archives, Queen Elizabeth II Country Park, Ashington, Northumberland, NE63 9YF; Phone: 01670 624455
- There is a branch office in Berwick upon Tweed.
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