Description
Birtley, a village and a parish in Northumberland, on the North Tyne river and on the North British railway, near Wark station, 5 miles SE of Bellingham. The parish includes the township of Broomhope with Buteland, and it has a post office under Wark (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 6980; population of the civil parish, 387; of the ecclesiastical, 474. Coal and other useful minerals occur. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £200. Patron, the Duke of Northumberland, who is also lord of the manor and chief landowner. The church is ancient, and was enlarged by the addition of a tower and spire in 1883, and restored in 1884. There is a literary institute.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
