Description
Healey, a township and district chapelry in Bywell St Peter parish, Northumberland, 4 miles S of Riding Mill station on the N.E.R., and 7 SE of Hexham. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Riding Mill (R.S.O.) Acreage, 2389; population of township, 96; of the ecclesiastical district, 290. A small church, in the Norman style, was built in 1860. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle-on-Tyne; gross value,, £250 with residence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
