In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Horsley By Elsdon like this:
HORSLEY, a chapelry in Elsdon parish, Northumberland; on the river Reed, 3 miles NNW of Otterburn, and 7 N by W of Woodburn r. station. Post town, Otterburn, under Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The statistics are returned with the parish. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Elsdon, in the diocese of Durham. The church is a modern edifice, in the Lombardic style, with an apse.
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Horsley by Elsdon through time
Horsley By Elsdon is now part of Tynedale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Tynedale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Horsley By Elsdon itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Horsley by Elsdon, in Tynedale and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24684
Date accessed: 20th April 2024
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