In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described St John Lee like this:
JOHN-LEE (ST.), a parish in Hexham district, Northumberland; on the river Tyne, the Border Counties railway, and the Roman wall, immediately N of Hexham. It adjoins Hexham bridge, in the neighbourhood of Hexham r. station; it contains Acomb township, with a village 1¼ mile NNW of that bridge, and with a postoffice under Hexham; and it contains also the townships of Portgate, Sandhoe, Anick, Anick-Grange, Fallowfield, Cocklaw, Bingfield, Hallington, and Wall, the last of which has a station on the Border Counties railway. ...
Acres, 15, 090. Real property, £19, 264; of which £1, 099 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 2, 073; in 1861, 2, 254. Houses, 401. The increase of pop. was chiefly in Acomb township, and arose from the extension of lead mines, and the opening of a new colliery. The property is not much divided. The manor belongs to W. B. Beaumont, Esq. Lee Hall belonged to the Jarins and the Coatesworths, and passed to the Charltons. Hermitage is the seat of Mrs. Allgood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Valne, £280. Patron, W. B. Beaumont, Esq. The church is in Acomb township stands on the wooded brow of an extensive tableau, overlooking the Tyne valley; has a fine spire, figuring conspicuously in the beautiful landscape around Hexham; is ancient, and very good; and occupies the site of an oratory of St. John of Beverley, which used to be visited annually by the monks of Hexham in solemn procession. There are chapels of ease at Wall and Bingfield, a Wesleyan chapel at Acomb, and an endowed school with £12 a year.
St John Lee through time
St John Lee is now part of Tynedale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Tynedale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about St John Lee itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of St John Lee, in Tynedale and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21089
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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