Description
Freeholders Quarter, a township in Long Horsley parish, Northumberland, 6 1/2 miles NNW of Morpeth. Acreage, 899; population, 103. Post, money order, and telegraph office, Morpeth; Freeland, an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1869 from the civil parish of Eynsham, Oxfordshire, 2£ miles NW from Eynsham, and 2 1/4 SW from Handborough station on the G.W.R. Post town, Oxford; money order office, Eynsham ; telegraph office, Handborough. Population, 160. , The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, abt £121. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, and was erected in 1869. There is a small Wesleyan chapel. Freeland Lodge and St Mary's House are chief residences.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
